Haying Quotes

#1. The only obvious advantage to being an adult is that you can eat your dessert without haying sampled the vegetables.

Lisa Alther

#2. When I lived summers at my grandparents' farm, haying with my grandfather from 1938 to 1945, my dear grandmother Kate cooked abominably. For noon dinners, we might eat three days of fricasseed chicken from a setting hen that had boiled twelve hours.

Donald Hall

#3. I live in the house my great-grandfather moved to in 1865 ... I spent all my summers here as a kid haying with my grandfather, and it was my favorite place in the world.

Donald Hall

#4. We saw men haying far off in the meadow, their heads waving like the grass which they cut. In the distance the wind seemed to bend all alike.

Henry David Thoreau

#5. Whatever controls us really is our god ... The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is controlled by the people he or she wants to please. We do not control ourselves. We are controlled by the lord of our life. (Rebecca Manley Pippert,

Timothy Keller

#6. Dogs are dim creatures, do not speak to me of their good sense
have you ever heard of a team of tomcats hauling a sled across the frozen wastes?

John Banville

#7. When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don't get carried away-it's only dresses.

Karl Lagerfeld

#8. Living in a zoo means it wasn't always sparkly dresses, but I would still dress up. I had this pink sparkly dress and fairy wings, and I'd put those on and then go and dance in the zoo.

Bindi Irwin

#9. Faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within.

Anna Katharine Green

#10. But I am lost in flesh, whose sugared lies,
Still mock me and grow bold:
Sure thou didst put a mind there, if I could
Find where it lies.

George Herbert

#11. And for anyone who ever thought that Ellen and I broke it off because of sexuality, you couldn't be more mistaken. And for anyone who thought my mother's prayers had anything to do with me marrying a man, forget it.

Anne Heche

#12. I started to think about the abyss that separates the poet from the reader and the next thing I knew I was deeply depressed.

Roberto Bolano

#13. You can't have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

Brian Eno

#14. I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist - I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don't have to solve that problem. It's up to God, if any.

Jorge Luis Borges

#15. I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?

Maurice Maeterlinck

#16. It's been too many nights of being with to now be suddenly without.

Jewel

#17. Of course I am for stopping violence against women. It is unfortunate that the Senate Democrats are making the current re-authorization of Violence Against Women bill into a political football. The Republicans are offering an improved version of the reauthorization bill and I want to review it.

Sarah Steelman