Healdsburg Quotes & Sayings

The mathematics are the friends of religion, inasmuch as they charm the passions, restrain the impetuosity of the imagination, and purge the mind of error and prejudice. — John Arbuthnot

They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within
By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good. — T. S. Eliot

Decide what your currency is early. Let go of what you will never have. People who do this are happier and sexier. — Amy Poehler

It seemed to Jack that if an ordinary human being, his own son, no one particular, could have this purity of mind, then perhaps the isolated deeds of virtue at which people marveled in later life were not really isolated at all; perhaps they were the natural continuation of the innocent goodness that all people brought into the world at their birth. If this was true, then his fellow-human beings were not the rough, flawed creatures that most of them supposed. Their failings were not innate, but were the result of where they had gone wrong or been coarsened by their experiences; in their hearts they remained perfectible. — Sebastian Faulks

It must not remain our desire only to acquire the art of the bird," Lilienthal had written. "It is our duty not to rest until we have attained a perfect scientific conception of the problem of flight. — David McCullough