First Bank Middlebury Quotes & Sayings

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. — George Eliot

COVENANT blessings are not meant to be looked at only, but to be appropriated. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It was impossible for me to thank my father; what he called my sentimentality would have exasperated him. — Marcel Proust

My mother would beat me so bad, I wouldn't be able to sit down. And I would never snitch. — DMX

This is where I tell you that I admire you. I admire people who give a damn. The world needs more adults willing to spend time with kids, particularly teenagers. — John A. Heldt

You're easily distracted by the pattern of the cloth and can't see the quality of the threads. — Maria V. Snyder

The poems ... are moments when I had the intensity to see, and the energy to build, some careful analog that completed the seeing ... All I have been left is the exhausting habit of trying to tack up the slack in my life with words. — Samuel R. Delany

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email. — Elon Musk

He felts as if a tumour had burst inside his skull, — Stephen Lloyd Jones

He would have been far more attractive to her if she could have trusted him. You could not love a man who was always playing hide-and-seek with you; that was the lesson she had learned. — Mary McCarthy

Now, I take full blame for all that came next. For I continued the story ... but departed the text. — Berkeley Breathed

So you're not going to die, are you?" she [Astor] asked politely.
"Not yet," I said. "Not until after you do your homework."
She nodded, glanced toward the kitchen, and said, "I hate math." Then she wandered away down the hall, presumably to hate math at closer range. — Jeff Lindsay

Behold,
A ram, caught in a thicket by its horns;
Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.
But the old man would not so, but slew his son,
And half the seed of Europe, one by one — Wilfred Owen