James Iredell Quotes & Sayings

Sleeper in the Valley
The river sings and cuts a hole in the meadow,
madly hooking white tatters on the rushes.
light escalades the strong hills. The small
valley bubbles with sunbeams like a beerglass.
The young conscript bareheaded and open-mouthed,
his neck cooling in the blue watercress;
he's sleeping. The grass soothes his heaviness,
the sunlight is raining in his green bed,
baking away the aches of his body. He smiles,
as a sick child might smile himself asleep.
O Nature, rock him warmly, he is cold.
The fields no longer make his hot eyes weep.
He sleeps in the sun, a hand on his breast lies open,
at peace. He has two red holes in his left side. — Robert Lowell

It's not ok when around 1 million New Zealanders don't vote. — Metiria Turei

That's where we find ourselves today. In a meeting with people who have no idea how to do our jobs, yet consistently find it their place to tell us how to do it. It's enough to drive any designer insane. — Tom Greever

For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months. — Peter O'Toole

To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secrets. — Khalil Gibran

Your Karma is of your own making. — Nalini Singh

I believe I've put forth a tiny soul-root into Kingsport soil this afternoon. I hope so. I hate to feel transplanted. — L.M. Montgomery

I think the biggest mistake most people make when they pick their first job is they don't worry enough about whether they'll love the work, and they worry more about whether it's good experience — Steve Ballmer

An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty. — Edmund Burke

Even if the world was falling apart, that was no reason to let his appearance and good habits fall apart with it. — S.R. Ford