Adirondack Park Quotes & Sayings

With boys, you always know where you stand. Right in the path of a hurricane. — Erma Bombeck

He could be heard moving about in his room with a tormented and maddening insistence, as if on those nights he was receiving the ghost of the man he had been until then, and both of the them, the past man and the present one, were locked in a silent struggle in which the past one was defending his wrathful solitude, his invulnerable standoffish way, his intransigent manners; and the present one his terrible and unchangeable will to free himself from his own previous man. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I adore simple pleasures," said Lord Henry. "They are the last refuge of the complex. But I don't like scenes, except on the stage. — Oscar Wilde

None of us has a girlfriend. But being in a band, you meet people everywhere you go. I know mine will turn up one day. — Isaac Hanson

Hinduism as a faith might espouse tolerance, this does not necessarily mean that all Hindus behave tolerantly. — Shashi Tharoor

Young cat! If you keep Your eyes open enough, Oh, the stuff you will learn! The most wonderful stuff! — Dr. Seuss

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change. — Jesse Jackson

Because of the brevity of life, the Bible warns that we should be prepared to meet God at all times. — Billy Graham

But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant upon which the mathematical world could rest, I found the elephant tottering, and proceeded to construct a tortoise to keep the elephant from falling. But the tortoise was not more secure than the elephant, and after some twenty years of very arduous toil, I came to the conclusion that there was nothing more that I could do in the way of making mathematical knowledge indubitable. — Bertrand Russell

You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.'
Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns. — Graham Greene

I already fell - a little too hard if you ask me. Now it's your turn."
"My turn for what?"
"To say you love me so I can close my eyes and fall all the way. — Ella Maise

There was a gentle glow coming on in the sky to my right as I drove north through the cold and empty beauty of the Adirondack Park. I would have pointed the impending dawn out to the girl in the back of my Element if she wasn't unconscious and bleeding on the easy-to-clean floor. I crossed the northern border of the Park at the same time that the sun crept over the white pines on the side of road. I don't know if that first ray of morning caught her eye, but my passenger groaned, cleared her throat a bit to try and speak, then clacked her teeth hard together again to hold back whatever she was starting to say. I consulted the map in my head, determined that I wouldn't make it to the house before she started acting up, thought about Murphy's Law and the prevalence of state troopers on backcountry roads for only a moment, and then pulled over to deal with Sadie Hostetler. — Jamie Sheffield

We thought we'd name the magazine for the number of bridges within Edmonton's city limits. We thought this number was 18. Much later, we learned that the number is actually 21. But we didn't like the sound of that so much. — Lynn Coady