Dauwer Quotes & Sayings

I told him not to go to sea. I'm your mother, I said. The sea won't love you like I love you, she's cruel. But he said, Oh Mother, I need to see the world. I need to see the sun rise in the tropics, and watch the Northern Lights dance in the Arctic sky, and most of all I need to make my fortune and then, when it's made I will come back to you, and build you a house, and you will have servants, and we will dance, mother, oh how we will dance... — Neil Gaiman

A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the twistin' of it. — Ellen Glasgow

After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it. — Nicholas Mosley

Gough never pretended to perfection or to sainthood - well, hardly ever. Although when he set off the metal detector at airport security, he would blame his aura. — William Faulkner

If somebody's going on your board, and you're going to be C.E.O., it will help if that person knows how to be C.E.O., who has done it before. — Ben Horowitz