Birders Society Quotes & Sayings

Letter 74

I still have the first letter that you wrote to me. I carry it with me like a garden in my pocket.

If you come to me at this moment
your minutes will become hours
your hours will become days
and your days will become a lifetime.

I am never sure if I am reading the letter or the letter is reading me. — Gregory Colbert

Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill. — John Simon

I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star. — Ed Begley Jr.

I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers. — Kanye West

Some stories will help you find happiness and truth. Some stories teach you not to make the same mistakes twice. These ones offer instructions. — Lloyd Jones

I work only in the morning from 10 to noon. I still write by hand. I interrupt my writing when I feel that I've discovered something beautiful or, on the contrary, when I feel discontent. — Ismail Kadare

Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness. — James Russell Lowell

The reason you want your kids to pay attention in school is you haven't the faintest idea how to do their homework. — Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz

There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can do nothing right. — Miles Franklin

The USSR, which they'd begun to renovate and improve at
about the time when Tatarsky decided to change his profession, improved so
much that it ceased to exist (if a state is capable of entering nirvana,
that's what must have happened in this case) — Victor Pelevin

The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing. — John Fowles

MISSION: Be excellent at what you do and you will stand before kings. Proverbs 22:29 — Bible. New International Version

As soon as I got out of jail, as soon as my trial was over, first of all, during the time I was in jail, there was an organization called the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis, and I insisted that it be called National United Committee to Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners. — Angela Davis

Most large companies structure their affairs so that they minimize their tax payments. As long as you do it within the law, it's OK. — Chuck Feeney