Harriet Prescott Spofford Quotes

#1. I'm proud of most of the stuff I've put out and I hope my kids will look at it long after I'm gone and go, "hey, Daddy was cool once!"

Doc Brown

#2. I spent so many summers and New Years and fun times in New Orleans. It was always a place where I felt I could go and actually let go and enjoy the spirit of something.

Sandra Bullock

#3. I'm not good, of course; I wouldn't give a fig to be good. So it's not vanity. It's on a far grander scale; a splendid selfishness, - authorized, too; and papa and mamma brought me up to worship beauty, -and there's the fifth commandment, you know.

Harriet Prescott Spofford

#4. A full moon is poison to some; they shut it out at every crevice, and do not suffer a ray to cross them; it has a chemical or magical effect; it sickens them. But I am never more free and royal than when the subtile celerity of its magic combinations, whatever they are, is at work.

Harriet Prescott Spofford

#5. You can't prove that something doesn't exist. You can only prove that something does exist.

John Connolly

#6. I am the one rich thing that morn
Leaves for the ardent noon to win;
Grasp me not, I have a thorn,
But bend and take my being in.

Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford

#7. Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

Colin Powell

#8. This is how memories are; what seems so clear and unforgettable at one moment vanishes like steam the next.

Michelle Moran

#9. If a woman is not fit to manage the internal matters of a house, she is fit for nothing, and should never be put in a house or over a house, any way. Good housekeeping lies at he root of all the real ease and satisfaction in existence.

Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford

#10. Travelers, it is late.
Life's sun is going to set.
During these brief days that you have strength,
be quick and spare no effort of your wings

Rumi

#11. It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of death which is set upon the whole figure. It is, in every way, perfect
truth itself, but truth selected with inconceivable refinement of feeling.

John Ruskin

#12. The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

Bill Gates

#13. Growth hurts because change isn't easy, that's why they call it growing pains

Tony Gaskins

#14. Under the snowdrifts the blossoms are sleeping, Dreaming their dreams of sunshine and June, Down in the hush of their quiet they're keeping Trills from the throstle's wild summer-sung tune.

Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford

#15. Ah! Beautiful Paris! Where smiles bloom on stone.

Debasish Mridha

#16. To feel the pure joy of life, donate yourself for the betterment of others.

Debasish Mridha

#17. The day I met a friendly ghost was the day I came up with better analogies.

Karina Halle

#18. The winds were warm about us, the whole earth seemed the wealthier for our love.

Harriet Prescott Spofford

#19. Humans always love and hate each other for a reason; beauty or talent, hard working or wealth. If you want to be loved give them a reason.

M.F. Moonzajer

#20. When we hold it (amber) in our hands, we hold also that furious epoch where rioted all monsters and poisons, where death fecundated and life destroyed, where superabundance demanded such existences, no souls, but fiercest animal fire - just for that I hate it!

Harriet Prescott Spofford

#21. I didn't want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay on for A-Levels, but football came calling - that was my real love.

Frank Lampard

#22. The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage.

M. Ward

#23. A gush of bird song, a patter of dew
A cloud and a rainbow's warning;
Suddenly sunshine and perfect blue
An April day in the morning!

Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford