Fountains Of Silence Quotes & Sayings

A lot of the Indians who came to North America in the '70s, and who made very successful adjustments, always had an idea of the India that they had left, not realizing that the India that they had left has changed more profoundly than the America they came to. — Clark Blaise

Ah, the harbour bells of Cambridge! Whose fountains in moonlight and closed courts and cloisters, whose enduring beauty in its virtuous remote self-assurance, seemed part, less of the loud mosaic of one's stupid life there, though maintained perhaps by the countless deceitful memories of such lives, than the strange dream of some old monk, eight hundred years dead, whose forbidding house, reared upon piles and stakes driven into the marshy ground, had once shone like a beacon out of the mysterious silence, and solitude of the fens. A dream jealously guarded: Keep off the Grass. And yet whose unearthly beauty compelled one to say: God forgive me. — Malcolm Lowry

Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it. — E. M. Forster

I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I was adopted. — Harry Frankfurt

As parents, you may confidently rear your children according to Gods Word. While bringing up your children, you are to remember that your children are not your 'possessions' but instead are the Lords gift to you. You are to exercise faithful stewardship in their lives. — John C. Broger

I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it. — Shirley Maclaine

Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity. — Anne Lamott

In a way I do hate the process of writing. It's like learning a role where you never think you're going to be able to conquer it when you start and it just takes enough focus and narrowing and getting enthusiastic and not losing it and so on. It's never good enough, but you aim for something and you hope it comes somewhat close. But it is a pleasure once you have written it. — Julie Andrews

A physician, after he had felt the pulse of Pausanias, and considered his constitution, saying, "He ails nothing," "It is because, sir," he replied, "I use none of your physic. — Plutarch

Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance. — William Shenstone

Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction. — Frances Wright

Moonlight possesses no alchemy to transmute good motives to base, but it does excite love magic ... — John Geddes