A White Heron Quotes

#1. Gray Man. The Gray Man was created by Sarah Orne Jewett and appeared in "The Gray Man" (A White Heron and Other Stories, 1886). Jewett also created Lady Ferry. "The Gray Man" is one of Jewett's best supernatural short stories, which means it is very good indeed.

Jess Nevins

#2. In a snowfall that covers the winter grass a white heron uses his own whiteness to disappear.

Dogen

#3. Every player has the option to have metal spikes or other spikes or whatever they feel most comfortable in.

Bernhard Langer

#4. I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee.

Gil Scott-Heron

#5. I know by now you think I should have straightened myself out - Thank you, drop dead!

Morrissey

#6. Imagine how they would have mocked you if you proclaimed, 'Not only is the world a sphere, but there is an invisible, mystical force that holds everything to its surface'!

Dan Brown

#7. My head spins. One moment I'm told I'm too edgy, then people say I'm too angry, then that I show too much passion ... make your minds up.

Nick Clegg

#8. Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.

Russell L. Ackoff

#9. I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here and allowing the sacking, burning and plunder of Baghdad, for whatever reason.

Jon Lee Anderson

#10. In the wilderness, we experience the faithfulness of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. The Australian people want to help build this country into a great nation. This budget ... has not realized the capacity of the Australian people. It has underestimated them. It has let us down.

Lionel Murphy

#12. This morning
the beautiful white heron
was floating along above the water
and then into the sky of this
the one world
we all belong to
where everything
sooner or later
is a part of everything else
which thought made me feel
for a little while
quite beautiful myself.

Mary Oliver

#13. Human reason is by nature architectonic."

Critique of Pure Reason

Kant

#14. In his own way, he's lived life with all the intensity he could muster.

Haruki Murakami

#15. Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot.

Maya Angelou

#16. Lynx stood and raced to the camp. "Attend to our injured!" She unsheathed a machete and made for Hare's killer.
Heron grabbed her wrist. "Wait. He's still conscious."
"Then he will feel my machete," she replied, voice like ice.

Gwynn White

#17. Don't worry about losing. Think about winning.

Mike Krzyzewski

#18. In a shadowy place something white flew up. It was a heron, and it went away over the dark treetops. William Wallace followed it with his eyes and Brucie clapped his hands, but Virgil gave a sigh, as if he knew that when you go looking for what is lost, everything is a sign.
("The Wide Net")

Eudora Welty