Wooded Acres Quotes & Sayings

In the deep jungles of Africa, a traveler was making a long trek. Coolies had been engaged from a tribe to carry the loads. The first day they marched rapidly and went far. The traveler had high hopes of a speedy journey. But the second morning these jungle tribesmen refused to move. For some strange reason they just sat and rested. On inquiry as to the reason for this strange behavior, the traveler was informed that they had gone too fast the first day, and that they were now waiting for their souls to catch up with their bodies. — Lettie Cowman

Morning is a new sheet of paper for you to write on. — Eve Merriam

I grew up in northern Minnesota on 40 acres of wooded land 20 miles from the nearest town, and so the wilderness was home. It was not an unsafe place. I had that advantage. But there are so many representations of the wilderness being dangerous. You know, depictions of wild animals attacking people. It's like, "No, we kill those animals in far greater numbers than they kill us." — Cheryl Strayed

Man. He felt almost guilty about the condoms in his wallet. A guy wasn't supposed to lust after Beaver Cleaver's mom. — Jasmine Haynes

[It] is the interest as well as duty of a sovereign to maintain the authority of the laws. — Edward Gibbon

I grew up in western Oregon, just outside Eugene, on 27 wooded acres that served as my playground. — Benjamin Percy

What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are. — Edgar Friedenberg

Each of us has his own inner concentration camp ... We must deal with, with forgiveness and patience-as full human beings, as we are and what we will become. — Viktor E. Frankl

Come back to me, I begged, the tear slipping over my eye and gliding down my cheek. — Kristen Ashley

Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They're huge and abstract. And they're very beautiful. — David Lynch

I come from a stupid family. During the civil war my great uncle fought for the west. — Rodney Dangerfield

Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations. — Milan Kundera

I don't know of any plans to remaster the Mr Mister catalog. — Pat Mastelotto

God accomplishes much through us His servants".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] — R. Alan Woods

To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel - not the way others think you should feel. — Don Ellis

It's traumatizing for me to come to Washington during a Republican administration because I don't have any Republican clothes. — Sharon Stone