Wilsher Descendants Quotes & Sayings

One of the grandest figures that ever frequented Eastern Yorkshire was William Smith, the distinguished Father of English Geology. My boyish reminiscence of the old engineer, as he sketched a triangle on the flags of our yard, and taught me how to measure it, is very vivid. The drab knee-breeches and grey worsted stockings, the deep waistcoat, with its pockets well furnished with snuff-of which ample quantities continually disappeared within the finely chiselled nostril-and the dark coat with its rounded outline and somewhat quakerish cut, are all clearly present to my memory. — William Crawford Williamson

To live your life without expectation-without the need for specific results-that is freedom. That is Godliness. — Neale Donald Walsch

O deaf and mute
and blind and beautiful and interminable rose
who into time, attar and verse transmute — Cecilia Meireles

Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up. — Taylor Swift

O poor, unthinking human heart! Error will not go away, logic and reason are slow to penetrate.We cling with both arms to false hope, refusing to believe in the weightiest proofs against it, embracing it with all our strength. In the end it escapes, ripping our veins and draining our heart's blood; until, regaining consciousness, we rush to fall into snares of delusion all over again — Rabindranath Tagore

Nothing is true unless it works. And it has to work for you, not for someone else. — Raymond Charles Barker

Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital. — Henry David Thoreau

Don't fight darkness. Bring the light, and darkness will disappear, — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him. — Karen Blixen

***A Last note from your narrator***
I am haunted by humans. — Markus Zusak

Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor. — Neal Stephenson

Introducing Tac-os! It's meat, cheese, and lettuce flavored O's in a tortilla bowl ... it even makes the milk taste like tacos! — Harry Styles

Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity. — Thomas Merton

For decades, free nations tolerated oppression in the Middle East for the sake of stability. In practice, this approach brought little stability and much oppression, so I have changed this policy. — George W. Bush