Agates Lake Quotes & Sayings

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. — Richard Dawkins

I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow
Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow;
And then I must scrub and bake and sweep
Till the stars are beginning to blink and peep;
And the young lie long and dream in their bed ... — William Butler Yeats

It almost seemed as if there must be some random and of course unfair thrift in the emotional housekeeping of the world, if the great happiness
however temporary, however flimsy
of one person could come out of the great unhappiness of another. — Alice Munro

The fight of faith can only be won with the grace of God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Being broke didn't seem so awful as it had yesterday, being broke but being at peace with the world.
("Don't Wait Up For Me Tonight") — Cornell Woolrich

I have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form of journalism. And I think that a magazine is an old friend. — Hugh Hefner

There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson