Woodlawns Quotes & Sayings

Casting wistful glances at the Woodlawns' house Now — Carol Ryrie Brink

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them. — Ray Bradbury

All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom. — Charles De Lint

It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose. — Clifford D. Simak

It is one of the most fatal illusions that, by substituting negotiations between states or organized groups for competition for markets or for raw materials, international friction would be reduced. This would merely put a contest of force in the place of what can only metaphorically be called the "struggle" of competition and would transfer to powerful and armed states, subject to no superior law, the rivalries which between individuals had to be decided without recourse to force. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and the celestial bodies, if the poet did not speak so much from under a roof, or the saint dwell there so long. Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots. — Henry David Thoreau

The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness. — William Slim

You cannot even touch my soul.
So I have emerged stronger,
Kinder, perceptive, forgiving
To embrace you with all the humility. — Balroop Singh

If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages ... — Isak Dinesen

On two separate occasions he's told people in Los Angeles that he's from Canada and they've asked about igloos. An allegedly well-educated New Yorker once listened carefully to his explanation of where he's from - southwestern British Columbia, an island between Vancouver Island and the mainland - and then asked, apparently in all seriousness, if this means he grew up near Maine. — Emily St. John Mandel

God transcends even the undertakings of evangelical theologians. — Karl Barth

I think something that's very important for us to communicate is usually very simple. Like breathing: Breathing is very simple. You don't do a dissonant 9th harmony or something in breathing. You just breathe, you know. I think that's how it is with very important messages. — Yoko Ono