Woodslore Quotes & Sayings

What could he and she really know of each other, since it was his duty, as a "decent" fellow, to conceal his past from her, and hers, as a marriageable girl, to have no past to conceal? — Edith Wharton

I used to think if I could be free I should be the happiest woman," a young Mississippi woman recalled. "But when my master come to me, and says 'Lizzie, you is free!' it seems like I was in a kind of daze. And when I would wake up in the morning I would think to myself, Is I free? Hasn't I got to get up before daylight and go into the field and work? — Leon F. Litwack

I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am. — W. Somerset Maugham

Amos did not listen; he was desperately tired of listening; he wished to speak. — Erika Swyler

I have four chickens. I have four laying hens. And I have 50 fruit trees. I make apricot and plum jam every summer. I brought Memphis to Malibu. — Linda Thompson

I know I'll hold this loss in my heart forever. I know I'll hold, I'll hold. I know. — Sara Quin

Money, big money (which is actually a relative concept) is always, under any circumstances, a seduction, a test of morals, a temptation to sin. — Boris Yeltsin

Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees. — Nelson DeMille

In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property. — Charles Handy

Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation - but why should one for ever use precisely these words on which for ages a disparaging purpose has been stamped? — Friedrich Nietzsche

Really, what [sea] ice does is it acts like a garden. ... Losing that ice is like losing the soil in a garden. — Paul Nicklen

I hunt because I love the entire process: the preparations, the excitement, and sustained suspense of trying to match my woodslore against the finely honed instincts of these creatures. On most days spent in the woods, I come home with an honestly earned feeling that something good has taken place. It makes no difference whether or not I got anything: it has to do with how the day was spent. — Fred Bear

The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them. — Albert Einstein

Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to lay the basis for meaningful democracy. — Noam Chomsky

We limit how much technology our kids use at home — Steve Jobs

everybody-even monsters-needed a little attention once in a while. — Rick Riordan