Lehane Environmental Quotes

#1. Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.

Robert MacNeil

#2. What did Isabelle want?" Jace asked.
Alec hesitated. "Isabelle says the Queen of the Seelie Court has requested an audience with us."
"Sure," said Magnus. "And Madonna wants me as a backup dancer on her next world tour.

Cassandra Clare

#3. I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?

Kathleen Norris

#4. Life is where you look, right? I mean look for the bad, you'll find more of the bad, look for the good, you'll find more of the good.

Jane Green

#5. 'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen. For a second, I'm 10 years old again, waiting for the postman's whistle to slice the stillness of an Australian afternoon.

Geraldine Brooks

#6. It's easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.

Nadine Gordimer

#7. I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.

Chang-rae Lee

#8. If something is rubbing so hard against you, you can be sure it's working on you.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#9. I knew how to prepare for punishment. And I knew how to glue back my shattered pieces afterward. That was it. I didn't know how to endure anyone else.

Pepper Winters

#10. O Youth! flame earnest, still aspire, With energies immortal! To many a heaven of Desire, Our yearning opes a portal! And tho' Age wearies by the way, And hearts break in the furrow, We'll sow the golden grain Today
The Harvest comes tomorrow.

Gerald Massey

#11. Grammar is the analysis of language.

Edgar Allan Poe