Chief Delphi Quotes & Sayings

Autumn is the American season. In Europe the leaves turn yellow or brown, and fall. Here they take fire on the trees and hang there flaming. We think this frost-fire is a portent somehow: a promise that the continent has given us. Life, too, we think, is capable of taking fire in this country; of creating beauty never seen. — Archibald MacLeish

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail. — Philip Sidney

I certainly have had experiences of a sense of wonder at the world and a feeling that even though it could all be explained rationally, it still feels that there is more to it. — Garth Nix

What is believed in society is not always the equivalent of what is true; but as regards to a woman's reputation, it amounts to the same thing. — Margaret Atwood

She reminded Juliet of the parrot the shopkeeper owned. Both the woman and bird belonged in cages, preferably the same cage, so the bird could poop on all that velvet and lace. — Jordan Elizabeth Mierek

The best way to determine a person's character is to judge them when their world is falling apart. — Kilroy J. Oldster

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone. — Toni Morrison

Living artificially in towns, we are sickly, and never come to know ourselves. — John Muir