Burnham Orchards Quotes & Sayings

To me, pictures are like blintzes - ya gotta get 'em while they're hot. — Weegee

Dream Song:
In the heavens
A noise,
Like the rustling of the trees. — Frances Densmore

Well, well," he said. "This can't be a coincidence."
"It could," I said. "The odds aren't high, but they do exist."
"Uh-huh. — Josh Lanyon

Estimated from a wife's experience, the average man spends fully one-quarter of his life in looking for his shoes. — Helen Rowland

I've always been a huge Butthole Surfers fan. The first time I saw them was in the early '80s when all they had out was their first EP. I thought they were amazing. They've always been a huge influence and one of my all-time favorite bands. — Buzz Osborne

Theodora usually found that her good intentions matured too late for practical results. — Edith Wharton

God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel. — Robert Burns

Trapnel wanted, among other things, to be a writer, a dandy, a lover, a comrade, an eccentric, a sage, a virtuoso, a good chap, a man of honour, a hard case, a spendthrift, an opportunist, a raisonneur; to be very rich, to be very poor, to possess a thousand mistresses, to win the heart of one love to whom he was ever faithful, to be on the best of terms with all men, to avenge savagely the lightest affront, to live to a hundred full of years and honour, to die young and unknown but recognized the following day as the most neglected genius of the age. Each of these ambitions had something to recommend it from one angle or another, with the possible exception of being poor - the only aim Trapnel achieved with unqualified mastery - and even being poor, as Trapnel himself asserted, gave the right to speak categorically when poverty was discussed by people like Evadne Clapham. — Anthony Powell

The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernal of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education. — Bertrand Russell

Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way. — Dogen

And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon. The moon. The moon. They danced by the light of the moon. — Edward Lear

To all what we have not tried, we would never wish to try if we knew that we would fail. — Auliq Ice

The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Never limit yourself, never be satisfied, and smile-it's free! — Jennie Finch

Three stones for the faces of the mother, four bones ... for whatever reason the charlatans came up with that I can't be bothered to remember. — Sarah J. Maas