Gromboolian Quotes & Sayings

When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry nights; — Edward Lear

The quickness and flexibility of a well mind, a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out-these are the resources lost to a person when the brain is ill. — Kay Redfield Jamison

[T]welve year old Libby O'Shea coasted on a homemade swing, toes touching a blinding-blue heaven dolloped with clouds. — Julie Lessman

The Elders were closer to the Maker of All Things and should be deferred to whenever they made their will known. — Patricia Briggs

Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through her quite well, and all the while she is secretly preparing a refutation of their confident prophecies. — George Eliot

What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick! — Michael Pollan