Midden Quotes

#1. History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.

Wallace Stegner

#2. That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional.

Laurie Colwin

#3. The hand-plucked rose loses meaning as life is leached. Red love, once clutched to breast, putrefies and is thrown to the midden.
The hand leaked life as meaning was pucked. Putrefaction clutched love and was thrown to the midden.

Michael R. Fletcher

#4. There was something unmistakably exultant about the mess that Rosa had made. Her bedroom-studio was at once the canvas, journal, museum, and midden of her life. She did not "decorate" it; she infused it.

Michael Chabon

#5. I found it hard to think of leaving my books. They had been my elevators out of the midden, and to whom could I entrust such close friends? The

Maya Angelou

#6. Programming went back to the beginning of time. It was a little like the midden out back of his father's castle.

Vernor Vinge

#7. The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#8. It's usually our opposites who complement us best, because they're the only ones who can balance us out.

Rachel Hollis

#9. The happiest people are the ones who can build a firm foundation of awesomeness out of the stones people have thrown at them.

Tanya Masse

#10. Life is hopefully long, so I don't know what the future will bring.

Bethenny Frankel

#11. I just think the mood of the country is now that people don't necessarily want an elected official to tell them how they ought to cast their vote. Matter of fact, it's the opposite, and they want to express themselves, and they have a right to, and I'll respect their choice.

John Cornyn

#12. The nation's non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nation's right and every good government's duty.

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. for Ellie to have a word with you. Help you make up your mind.' The

Boyd Brent

#14. Pain is what matters. Not fast cars or big words or fabulous stories in exotic settings. And certainly not some French-toasted-sunrise-sensei-servant-motherfucker. I

David Arnold

#15. The past is a gift that should not be unwrapped in the present.

Steven Aitchison

#16. I have lost faith in universal panaceas - work is the one thing in which I really believe.

Louise Bogan

#17. Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.

Fulton J. Sheen

#18. The idea presented itself definitely to his mind that it was in his power to exchange the dreary, artificial, idle, and individualistic life he was leading for this laborious, pure, and socially delightful life.

Leo Tolstoy

#19. I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.

Sebastiao Salgado

#20. Why is it every careerist tries to turn his mother into a Madonna
to prove his intellect is a virgin birth, papa had nothing to do with it? It's the sign of the misogynist.

Christina Stead

#21. Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.

Will Rogers