Forest Items Quotes & Sayings

All I know is that it's breaking my mother's heart for me to be in here. I can stand it; I don't know if she can. — Peter Seth

For the clever and lucky, all roads are open! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

They are beautiful, heart-rendingly beautiful, those wilds, with a quality of wide-eyed, unsung, innocent surrender that my lacquered, toy-bright Swiss villages and exhaustively lauded Alps no longer possess. Innumerable lovers have clipped and kissed on the trim turf of old-world mountainsides, on the innerspring moss, by a handy, hygienic rill, on rustic benches under the initialed oaks, and in so many cabanes in so so many beech forests. But in the Wilds of America the open-air lover will not find it easy to indulge in the most ancient of all crimes and pastimes. Poisonous plants burn his sweetheart's buttocks, nameless insects sting his; sharp items of the forest floor prick his knees, insects hers; and all around there abides a sustained rustle of potential snakes
que dis-je,of semi-extinct dragons!
while the crablike seeds of ferocious flowers cling, in a hideous green crust, to gartered black sock and sloppy white sock alike. — Vladimir Nabokov

A creative life has nothing to do with where you're from or how much money you earn. It's merely a reflection of the creative intellect. — Anthony Marais

Food is not evil, but gluttony is. Childbearing is not evil, but fornication is. Money is not evil, but avarice is. Glory is not evil, but vainglory is. Indeed, there is no evil in existing things, but only in their misuse. — Maximus The Confessor

Immediate work, even poor, is worth more than dreams. — Charles Baudelaire

The thorniest business problems will surface at the board meetings, and the different, sharp opinions help to better explore the poles of the arguments to make better decisions. — Scott Weiss

The best writing is embarrassing; that's all there is to it. — A.D. Posey

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person. — Stephenie Meyer

Expectations are the rumors we spread inside us. — Himanshu Chhabra

I refuse to turn to theology to justify the life or redeem it. There is a question always of the connection to the eternal. I say to myself above all, keep alive your conviction that there are sacred elements in the life in the practice of the life that must be respected. But the conviction in the existence of the sacred does not necessarily imply that you need to believe in a creator, because we are the ones that made the sacred. — Stanley Kunitz

I think the philosophy in our public schools, and many other institutions today, is that a dose of God is more hazardous to your health than a dose of herpes or drugs. — Cal Thomas

Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research. — Raymond Queneau

You must be willing to protect yourself and what you cherish, no matter what the cost. — Christopher Paolini