Osmundson Plow Quotes & Sayings

And then we do it all again, just as our forefathers did before us. It is a farming pattern, fundamentally unchanged from many centuries ago. It has changed in scale (as farms have amalgamated to survive, so there are fewer us of ) but not in its basic content. You could bring a Viking man to stand on our fell with me and he would understand what we were doing and the basic pattern of our farming year. The timing of each task varies depending on the different valleys and farms. Things are driven by the seasons and necessity, but not our will." (p. 32) — James Rebanks

I've chosen a life that's so different from everybody else's that it cuts me off from them. Practically everybody I know treats me like a guest celebrity. Of course it's my own fault. I feel so damn alone sometimes, I feel like I could just float away into the stratosphere and everybody would stand there looking up at me and not one would haul me back down to earth. No ropes. — Jordan Mechner

Neurotic guilt," like that often fostered by religion, is a different matter. It tends to be excessive and inappropriate, based on the expectations of others instead of personal values or dwelling on the error rather than using the guilt feelings to make a change. In your religious experience, committing a sin made you a sinner, a bad deed made a bad person. This global condemnation creates low self-worth and more neurotic guilt and misery. — Marlene Winell

You really are playing God." "I most certainly am not playing. — Orson Scott Card

We cannot be saved until we have risen above all our enemies, not the least of which is ignorance. — Joseph Smith Jr.

Curb Your Enthusiasm, is not so much about Hollywood. It's more about Larry's weaknesses. — Kevin Nealon

What's that sound I hear?
It's just my lifetime
It's whistling past my ear — Gayle Forman

I would like to leave the world a better place than when I entered it. I would hope that by the time I die I could have learned from the years of living and hand something down. — Albert Hammond Jr.