Home That Floats Quotes & Sayings

Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
Over my head, I see the bronze butterfly,
Asleep on the black trunk,
Blowing like a leaf in green shadow.
Down the ravine behind the empty house,
The cowbells follow one another
Into the distances of the afternoon.
To my right,
In a field of sunlight between two pines,
The droppings of last year's horses
Blaze up into golden stones.
I lean back, as the evening darkens and comes on.
A chicken hawk floats over, looking for home.
I have wasted my life. — James Wright

Intel is down but not out. We have a very nervous market and it's the dog days of summer, ... We are short-term overbought so we're giving some of it back with the excuse being Intel. — Albert Goldman

How torturous is the "churchly" language one must speak in church - the tone, style, habit. It is all artificial; there is a total absence of a simple human language. With what a sigh of relief one leaves this world of cassocks, and kissing and church gossip. As soon as one leaves, one sees: wet bare branches, fog which floats over fields, trees, homes. Sky. Early dusk. And it all tells an incredibly simple truth. — Alexander Schmemann

The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not. — Anne Sexton

He goes along just as a water lily
Gentle on the surface of his thoughts his body floats
Unweighed down by passion or intensity
Yet unaware of the depth upon which he coasts
And he finds a home in me
For what misfortune sows, he knows my touch will reap — Fiona Apple

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real. — Sean Parker

I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was duty. — Terry Hayes

To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death. — Pema Chodron

At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they're mine, so who cares. — Rachel Kushner

did his yard the other day," the mulch guy said between loads. "There is something big going on, and he's been up in D.C." "What? — Mark Owen

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places. — Wendell Phillips

Countless millions who have walked this earth before us have gone through this, so this is just an experience we all share. — Ted Bundy

I drink Champagne when I win, to celebrate ... and I drink Champagne when I lose, to console myself. — Napoleon Bonaparte

It was odd
unsettling, actually
how love magnified everything. Small joy was turned into overwhelming happiness; worry became heart-stopping fear. It was as if love became a magnifying glass turned on the heart, taking whatever was there and making it appear many times its normal size. — Michael Thomas Ford