Wayfinders Massachusetts Quotes & Sayings

Only in this town, where we make an industry out of creating euphemisms, can we have enough sugar to sugarcoat this nonsense. — Byron Dorgan

English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies. — Roy Blount Jr.

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound. — Plautus

He's wearing flannel!" Alan yelped. "He's shoving his straight in my face! — K.D. Sarge

That's how he feels right now, he thinks, kneeling beside her, rinsing her hair: as though his love for his daughter will outstrip the limits of his body. The walls could fall away, even the whole city, and the brightness of that feeling would not wane. — Anthony Doerr

Do not hesitate to love and to love deeply. — Henri Nouwen

As the firm grew, so did the city. It got bigger, taller, and richer; but it also grew dirtier, darker, and more dangerous. A miasma of cinder-flecked smoke blackened its streets and at times reduced visibility to the distance of a single block, especially in winter, when coal furnaces were in full roar. — Erik Larson

Doubt crouched over his shoulder, ready to take him by the throat, whispering in his ear, You are an old man. An old, old man. — Eowyn Ivey

When I was a carpenter, I built sets for small storefront Chicago companies. Like, I built sets for friends of mine at The House Theater. — Timothy Simons

There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair. — Martial

My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material. — John Mellencamp

You think, Rilla,' mother said quietly - far too quietly - 'that it was right to spend so much for a hat, especially when the need of the world is so great?' "'I paid for it out of my own allowance, mother,' I exclaimed. "'That is not the point. Your allowance is based on the principle of a reasonable amount for each thing you need. If you pay too much for one thing you must cut off somewhere else and that is not satisfactory. But if you think you did right, Rilla, I have no more to say. I leave it to your conscience. — L.M. Montgomery