Recessionals Quotes & Sayings

I became a major league manager in several cities and was discharged. We call it discharged because there was no question I had to leave. — Casey Stengel

I am the State.
[Fr., L'etat c'est moi.] — Louis XIV

We will finish the race. — Barack Obama

Nothing goes down slower than a golf handicap. — Bobby Nichols

Red hair is great. It's rare, and therefore superior. — Augusten Burroughs

There is law enough all about us
in almanack and season, anniversary
days come round, the round earth's carnivale
of chimes and recessionals.
Good to be included
there. Good also what is not
fixed or sure even,
the second breath of being
here when the May-bush
snows in mid-September, as giddy
happenstance leads us
this way into
a lost one's arms, or that way
deeper into the maze. — David Malouf

Holmes was charming and gracious, but something about him made Belknap uneasy. He could not have defined it. Indeed, for the next several decades alienists and their successors would find themselves hard-pressed to describe with any precision what it was about men like Holmes that could cause them to seem warm and ingratiating but also telegraph the vague sense that some important element of humanness was missing. — Erik Larson

It's the journey and events that shape us all into individuals. There are always two side to every story. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence. — Henry Cabot Lodge