Obon Society Quotes & Sayings

Homecoming

My childhood's trees stand rejoicing around me: O human!
and the grass bids me welcome from foreign lands.
I lean my head in the grass: now home at last. — Edith Sodergran

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid. — Orson Welles

The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get. — Edward Albee

Count your blessings, not your worries. — Alexandra Monir

I vaguely remembered hearing psychologists say there was a preponderance of psychopaths at the top - in the corporate and political worlds - a clinical absence of empathy being a benefit in those environments. — Jon Ronson

You can swim (uncomfortably) in water at a temperature slightly above freezing; a tiny drop in temperature-or a miracle-allows you to walk on water. — Craig F. Bohren

As long as the house of The Holy Spirit remains a haven for criminals the reputation of the church will remain in ruins. — Sinead O'Connor

Here beneath the towering pines, by the river blue
Farragut will ever stand, alma mater true — Bruce A. Sarte

Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film. — Norman Jewison

I think that if I discovered I had cancer I would immediately say the word, "Phew."
Phew. — Sam Pink

Dear God, Holt looks good in that costume. Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo. — Leisa Rayven

I love Wallachia. It belongs to me, and I belong to it. It is my country, and it should always be mine, and I hate any king or sultan or god or prophet that proclaims anyone else has any right to it. — Kiersten White

most prized of all, her secretaire, a Napoleon III desk, full of nooks and crannies and pigeonholes, — Edna O'Brien