Top 28 Larch Quotes
#1. Where did Gabriel get a lily,
In the month of March,
When the green
Is hardly seen
On the early larch?
Grace James
#2. Grant us safe lodging, and holy rest," Mrs. Grogan was saying, "and peace at last." Amen, thought Wilbur Larch, the Saint of St. Cloud's, who was seventy-something, and an ether addict, and who felt that he'd come a long way and still had a long way to go.
John Irving
#3. Dr. Larch pointed out that Melony had taken Jane Eyre with her; he accepted this as a hopeful sign - wherever Melony went, she would not be without guidance, she would not be without love, without faith; she had a good book with her. If only she'll keep reading it, and reading it, Larch thought.
John Irving
#4. You remember how I used to tell you that I was Doctor Larch's helper?" Homer asked Angel.
"Right," said Angel Wells.
"Well, I got very good
at helping him," Homer said. "Very good. I'm not an amateur
John Irving
#5. At times, he admitted, he had been very happy in the apple business. He knew what Larch would have told him: that his happiness was not the point, or that it wasn't as important as his usefulness.
John Irving
#6. And what were the rules at St. Cloud's? What were Larch's rules? Which rules did Dr. Larch observe, which ones did he break, or replace
and with what confidence?
John Irving
#7. It was Wilbur Larch who was the first man in Maine to call a television what it was: an idiot box.
John Irving
#8. The leaves of these [larch] trees are like those of the pine; timber from them comes in long lengths, is as easily wrought in joiner's work as is the clearwood of fir, and contains a liquid resin, of the color of Attic honey, which is good for consumptives .
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
#9. In other parts of the world, they have double-bed sheets," wrote Wilbur Larch in A Brief History of St. Cloud's. "Here in St. Cloud's we do without - we just do without.
John Irving
#10. ... and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.
John Irving
#11. He wanted to take Homer Wells in his arms, and hug him, and kiss him, but he could only hope that Homer understood how much Dr. Larch's self-esteem was dependent on his self-control.
John Irving
#12. You are my work of art," Wilbur Larch told Homer Wells. "Everything else has just been a job. I don't know if you've got a work of art in you," Larch concluded in his letter to Homer, "but I know what your job is,and you know what it is, too.
John Irving
#13. Always be suspicious of easy work, Dr. Wilbur Larch once said to Homer Wells.
John Irving
#14. Then the Yo-Yo was coming around again, and Vann Larch was saying, "Gehenna with this fooling around! I'll fix the expurgated unprintability!
H. Beam Piper
#15. The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit, 'good works,' ... a transformed life).
J.I. Packer
#16. Real love is strange and changeable ... but also somehow constant.
Tom Hiddleston
#17. Everyone needs beauty. Even beautiful people"
From "Central Park Song
Zack Love
#18. I don't know everything I feel, but I do know this. You mustn't ever want anyone but me, Big Science. If you look at any other girl I'll kill her.
Margaret Mahy
#19. Screaming again and again and again and again and again and again... . please stoooooooop.
Deyth Banger
#20. Be not frightened at the hard words "imposition," "imposture;" give and ask no questions. Cast thy bread upon the waters. Some have, unawares, entertained angels.
Charles Lamb
#21. The immensity of the universe didn't suddenly change, but our ability to see and understand this truth changed dramatically. And with that greater light, mankind was introduced to glorious vistas we had never before imagined.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#22. Gossip is the story of our lives," she said.''It is the way a society works out how it is to behave. Our manners, our morals,our mores
Marion Halligan
#23. I do know when the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows.
William Shakespeare
#24. Neighbors are far better acoustic analyzers for determining the quality of their life versus any acoustic instrument left unattended by an expert.
Stephen Ambrose
#28. Consciousness that is not translated into appropriate action is a betrayal of consciousness ... Living consciously is living responsibly toward reality. We do not necessarily have to like what we see but we recognize that wishes or fears or denials do not alter facts.
Nathaniel Branden
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