Versluis Park Quotes & Sayings

My old friend, water, my good companion, my beloved mother and father: I am its most natural offspring. — Doris Grumbach

They had not grown up in the paradoxes of industry. Their senses were still sharp to the ridiculousness of the industrial life. — John Steinbeck

My sixteenth was anything but sweet; it was more like the passage into hell on earth. — Kirsty Moseley

Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect. — Francis Parkman

I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it. — Eugene V. Debs

In chess, as played by a good player, logic and imagination must go hand in hand, compensating each other. — Jose Raul Capablanca

COUSINS ARE MY RELIGION ..
THERE HOUSE IS MY CHURCH ..
ARE FIGHTS ARE THE CHOIR ..
I LOVE MY COUSINS .. — Claude Shannon

We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have left is retrospection and anticipation, retrospection and anticipation. In which case what's left to recall but past anticipation? What's left to anticipate but future retrospection? — David Leavitt

You have to learn the opponent psychologically inside out and mental strength is one of the important makers. You're either gonna break it or make it. — Wladimir Klitschko

My life has not been the best possible. The slave of impulse, I have rushed forward to my own destruction. — Lady Caroline Lamb

For someone who made such an enormous contribution to American literature, Mark Twain has been the subject of many books but few major biographies. — Michael Patrick Hearn

She had needed kindness before, and had received none. Now it was too late, and she did not know what to do with it. — Frances Hardinge