Realising Boys Mistakes 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

Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts. — Susan Meissner

Mastery of creative tension brings out the capacity for perseverance and patience. Time is an ally. — Peter M. Senge

Anyone who thinks they're happy should really see a doctor, because there is no reason to be happy. — Marilyn Manson

You can make any meal into a sandwich, and any sandwich into a meal. — Jeff Mauro

The American people have decided that it was a mistake to choose to go to war in Iraq. — Raul Grijalva

Little girls. They could melt the toughest hearts. — Nicholas Sparks

Where there is a confluence of interests among nations, as, for example the swine flu or polio, you can get well functioning international institutions like the World Health Organization. And you can act. Climate change is different, because the science remains hypothetical and the potential costs staggering. — Charles Krauthammer

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A farm is like a very large and extended baby. It takes a great deal of time and very little mentality. — Anne Bosworth Greene