Country Ornaments Quotes

#1. What was the use of being grown up if you couldn't take a little risk now and then?

William Bowen

#2. If words were adequate to describe fully what the dance can do, there would be no reason for all the mighty muscular effort, the discomfort, the sweat and the splendors of that art.

Jose Limon

#3. Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.

Abigail Adams

#4. Almost dying is awfully easy. It's the living that's hard.

Jennifer L. Holm

#5. Love looketh from the eye, and kindleth love by looking.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#6. It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea.

Charles Lyell

#7. She quickly exited the room, hearing the echoes of the mastiff's angered barks fade behind her down the hallway. As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now." At

Colin Meloy

#8. Marilla felt this and was vaguely troubled over it, realizing that the ups and downs of existence would probably bear hardly on this impulsive soul and not sufficiently understanding that the equally great capacity for delight might more than compensate.

L.M. Montgomery

#9. A country whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable degree ... Whereas when buildings are of durable materials, every new edifice is an actual and permanent acquisition to the state, adding to its value as well as to its ornament.

Thomas Jefferson