Witteveen Holland Quotes & Sayings

If you had really loved something, wouldn't a little bit of it always linger? — Susan Orlean

Haska - a dim legendary figure of a generation ago, who went back up the mountain and cleared six acres of brush in the tiny valley that took his name. He broke the soil, reared stone walls and a house, and planted apple trees. And already the site of the house is undiscoverable, the location of the stone walls may be deduced from the configuration of the landscape, and I am renewing the battle, putting in angora goats to browse away the brush that has overrun Haska's clearing and choked Haska's apple trees to death. So I, too, scratch the land with my brief endeavour and flash my name across a page of legal script ere I pass and the page grows musty. — Jack London

We can take our time with everything. Do it right, do it slow. — Stella Knights

Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses, except the intellect itself. — Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

I felt very bad in Washington ... I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen to me, and I was cold and half-hungry, so I wrote a great many poems. — Langston Hughes