Present Stem

Famous quotes containing the words present and/or stem:

    It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    The melon is growing but its stem is shriveling.
    Russian popular saying, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)