Paumanok Quotes & Sayings

Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns. — Carson McCullers

Everything about her room betokened wealth; but she had put away the French novels, and had placed a Bible on a little table, not quite hidden, behind her own seat. — Anthony Trollope

14 Therefore, my son, see that you are merciful unto your brethren; deal ajustly, bjudge righteously, and do cgood continually; and if ye do all these things then shall ye receive your dreward; yea, ye shall have emercy restored unto you again; ye shall have justice restored unto you again; ye shall have a righteous judgment restored unto you again; and ye shall have good rewarded unto you again. — The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints

On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex. — Bill Russell

Victory, union, faith, identity, time,
The indissoluble compacts, riches, mystery,
Eternal progress, the kosmos, and the modern reports.
This, then, is life;
Here is what has come to the surface after so many throes and convulsions."
-from "Starting from Paumanok — Walt Whitman

Maybe humans need animals to help them understand the world. Certainly it's hard to see what else cats do for humans, aside from looking cute and killing the odd mouse. — Elly Griffiths

. . .standards are for: They establish what children should know, not how they are taught or measured. — Hillary Rodham Clinton

I thought it was very elegant, a wonderful opening. The vegans seemed so surprised-God knows what they get to eat. — Gael Greene

When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub. — Gavin Rossdale

When you write for a living and you can't do anything else, you know that sooner or later that the deadline is going to come screaming down on you like a goddamn banshee. There's no avoiding it ... So one day you just don't appear at the El Adobe bar anymore; you shut the door, paint the windows black, rent an electric typewriter and become the monster you always were - the writer. — Hunter S. Thompson

No amount of security is worth the suffering of a life lived chained to a routine that has killed your dreams. I — Kent Nerburn

it mattered less what your origins were, and more what work you were willing to do; how hard you'd fight for the men around you. — Alexandra Bracken