Lizette Woodworth Reese Quotes

#1. Carter-headed chicken.

Rick Riordan

#2. I wonder at the idleness of tears.

Lizette Woodworth Reese

#3. [The building] had been designed by an architect, so it bore little resemblance to any normal structure.

Gary Corby

#4. The sun pours out like wine.

Lizette Woodworth Reese

#5. A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature ... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of his life. No later intimacy is like that of the first.

Lizette Woodworth Reese

#6. For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life.

Lizette Woodworth Reese

#7. To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience.

Lizette Woodworth Reese

#8. I am a traditionalist, and I'm an innovator. Most of what I do is to weigh change and legislate to the best of my ability on what should change and what should not. Do I have a respect for tradition? Of course I do. Do I have a blind belief in it? No.

Judith Martin

#9. The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly Truth comes by and puts them out.

Lizette Woodworth Reese

#10. Glad that I live am I;
That the sky is blue;
Glad for the country lanes,
And the fall of dew.

Lizette Woodworth Reese

#11. Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness.

Stanislav Grof

#12. Don't become me. Don't let her down like I did. You only deserve what you make yourself worthy of. Do what I couldn't. Be a man.

Abbi Glines

#13. Islands, being harder to get to, naturally separated some of the wheat from the chaff, which was the entire philosophy behind places like Nantucket, where children grew up feeling entitled to private beaches and loud pants.

Emma Straub