Solace Of Open Spaces Quotes & Sayings

I hope nobody I wrote about becomes too upset. — Max Tundra

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside; or a grimy palace amid the same with a regiment of housemaids always working to smear the dirt together so that it may be unnoticed; which, think you, is the most refined, the most fit for a gentleman of those two dwellings? — William Morris

Because of outdated ideas around retirement, we have put the money cart ahead of the "life" horse. — Mitch Anthony

i am like the moon--
sometimes, full.
sometimes, black.

sometimes,
forever and ever alone. — AVA.

But again that sense of peace descended, that spell of perfect happiness, and I was traveling back through the years to the little French church of my childhood as the hymns began. Through my tears I saw the shining altar. I saw the icon of the Virgin, a gleaming square of gold above the flowers; I heard the Aves whispered as if they were a charm. Under the arches of Notre Dame de Paris I heard the priests singing Salve Regina. — Anne Rice

All things are connected, like the blood that runs in your family "The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father." 1854 The rivers are our brothers. They quench our thirst. They carry our canoes and feed our children. You must give to the rivers the kindness you would give to any brother. — Chief Seattle

Prudence consists in knowing how to distinguish the character of troubles, and for choice to take the lesser evil. — Niccolo Machiavelli

I only started concentrating on football as a career when I left school at 18. I played golf for the Scottish and British boys' teams. — Alan Hansen

Drugs support terrorism? No, your SUV supports terrorism. — Doug Stanhope

The tenor of the comments as we got closer and closer to August got dominated by 'Wouldja please get this over with' and not let us go into default. — Nan Hayworth

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few. — John L. Lewis

Passage between worlds. Then the gunfire. Then the killing. — Stephen King

We can't have any weak or silly. Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. They ought to die. They ought to be willing to die. It's a sort of disloyalty, after all, to live and taint the race. — H.G.Wells

I look at my students and have no trouble picturing just how successful they should be, if only we could remove them from the impetuses that brought them to the facility. If we could move them away from gangs. If we could get them into a rehab that stuck. If we could take them from people who abuse their trust, safety, and bodies. — Thomm Quackenbush