Bairns Castle Quotes & Sayings

Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back. — Simone Weil

Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later. — Zhuangzi

We ought frequently to remind ourselves that we must love the things of this life as we would what is shortly to leave us, or indeed in the very act of leaving us. — Seneca.

What farmers gain most of all from the increase in agricultural productivity, of course, is choice. — Jacqueline Novogratz

We can handle all European themes, handle them without superstition, with an irreverence which can have, and already does have, fortunate consequences. — Jorge Luis Borges

Most people work fifty weeks a year so they can do this the other 2. Well the smart ones live in a ski resort, where the boss lets them have powder snow days off. And almost forty feet of snow falls every winter thats a lot of days off. A lot of doing what you moved here to do. Most major ski resorts are now so big that regardles of what kind ofjob you have in a city there's probably a job almost exactly like yours in a ski rsort like this. So quit your job and rent that U-haul trailer now so next winter this can be you. Not you just sitting there watching this and wishing that this was you. — Warren Miller

When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary. — Honore De Balzac

Social hierarchy doesn't hold a candle to the power of feeling isolated in your own skin. — Elyse Draper

There are people who would love to spend their last ten years, or five years, or whatever it is, on the surface of Mars. — Mary Roach

Why was she doing this to herself? She was too young to be locked away in this grim castle, weighed down with responsibility that was not hers
to shoulder. She should be at parties, being feted, dancing, and enjoying
herself. Or be surrounded by bairns. My bairns, he thought fiercely. — Monica McCarty

I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance. — Bernice Johnson Reagon

My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic. — Yancy Butler

When a friend is carried to his grave, we at once find excuses for every weakness, and palliation of every fault. We recollect a thousand endearments, which before glided off our minds without impression, a thousand favors unrepaid, a thousand duties unperformed; and wish, vainly wish, for his return, not so much that we may receive as that we may bestow happiness, and recompense that kindness which before we never understood. — Samuel Johnson