Barn Swallow Quotes

#1. How would you like to have a thousand brilliantly colored cliff swallows keeping house in the eaves of your barn, and gobbling up insects over your farm at the rate of 100,000 per day? There are many Wisconsin farmsteads where such a swallow-show is a distinct possibility.

Aldo Leopold

#2. It is particularly in contacts with people of the same sex that one stumbles over both one's own shadow and those of other people. Although we do see the shadow in a person of the opposite sex, we are usually much less annoyed by it and can more easily pardon it.

C. G. Jung

#3. The kiss became the narrowed center of the still point of the turning world, so that even the park was turning in comparison to the still peace at their lips.

Patricia Highsmith

#4. Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.

James Allen

#5. A man may be humble through vainglory.

Michel De Montaigne

#6. What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect?

James K.A. Smith

#7. It's probably no accident that whenever one hears of a smart technology, it refers to something that has been taken out of human control.

Tom Vanderbilt

#8. Don't get cocky just because you've had a good run. You can lose your business as fast as you've earned it.

Barbara Corcoran

#9. Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.

Michael Jordan

#10. But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.

Carol Burnett

#11. [ ... ] vision without systems thinking ends up painting lovely pictures of the future with no deep understanding of the forces that must be mastered to move from here to there.

Peter M. Senge

#12. I had to get over my fear of running through the world naked and learn to say 'take me or leave me.'

Steven Spielberg

#13. At the end of a century that has seen
the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies,
the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent.

Joseph Sobran

#14. It's what Joyce Meyer calls, "New levels, new devils."2 Even if you conquer your fear of doing one thing, the moment you try something new, push your limits, or take on a new challenge, you're going to have a whole new set of fears that come with it.

Christy Wright

#15. Friends for life?

Why? How long have I got?

Christina Engela