Leafbrown Quotes & Sayings

"The only abject failure my mind can think of is ones failure to spend Eternity in God's Heaven"

~R. Alan Woods [2012] — R. Alan Woods

Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible. — Bill Gates

as though the soul's abundance does not sometimes spill over in the most decrepit metaphors, since no one can ever give the exact measure of their needs, their ideas, their afflictions, and since human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we knock out tunes for dancing-bears, when we wish to conjure pity from the stars. — Gustave Flaubert

Snow lies on my fields
though the air is so warm I want
to roll on my back and wriggle.
Sure, the dark downhill weep shows
who's winning, and the thatch of tall
grass is sticking out of the banks,
but I want to start digging and planting.
My swelling hills, my leafbrown loamy
soil interlaced with worms red as mouths,
my garden,
why don't you hurry up
and take your clothes off ? — Marge Piercy

Nobody treating us like kids. For once, we gt to be equals, not babies. Could use more of that in the twenty-first. Age doesn't make grown-ups. — Joss Whedon

To ignore the religious nature of the terrorist threat is to succumb to politically correct delusion. — Ruth Marcus

A meal is not something to get through. A meal is life. — Kristen Heitzmann

State and federal studies indicate that thousands of water and sewer systems may be too old to function properly. — Charles Duhigg

You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life. — Ray Bradbury

[Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could. — Eddie Condon

I really think next to the consciousness of doing a good action, that of doing a civil one is the most pleasing; and the epithet which I should covet the most next to that of Aristides, would be that of well-bred. — Lord Chesterfield

Tara grinned. "Funny how things work out, — Jennifer McMahon