Guildford Library Quotes & Sayings

Accidentals

Something out of place,
seen where it doesn't belong.

A surprise on the water
like Tundra Swans unexpected
and flung far from the Arctic
onto a Vermont pond.

Me, driving home, seeing all that white
with sinewy S-shaped necks
out of the corner of my eye.

Blessed is an ordinary Wednesday,
now etched forever in memory
as that Wednesday I went home

another way and found myself
far flung from work, from home,
from whoever I was before

black beaks beckoned me
while four pairs of wings unfolded. — Lynn Martin

Everything they told me as a kid has already been disproved by the same type of "experts" who made them up in the first place. — John Lennon

If women decide that their mission, their political career, balances out what they have to give up, they can be and are equally successful as men. — Dalia Grybauskaite

Tuck had always been made smaller made than Stan. Narrow shoulders, tiny hands and short fingers. Even as a young man his brown eyes were always watering like he'd been crying and his face never took hair well. What he had instead were four or five patches of hair that looked like a cluster of bee stingers popping straight out from his cheeks. — Sheldon Lee Compton

The stock market is a giant distraction to the business of investing. — John C. Bogle

Peace is the product of justice and love. — Oscar Romero

Money has never yet made anyone rich. — Seneca The Younger