Paddling Upstream Quotes

#1. At the window he sits and looks out, musing on the river, a little brown hen duck paddling upstream among the windwaves close to the far bank. What he has understood lies behind him like a road in the woods. He is a wilderness looking out at the wild.

Wendell Berry

#2. We were made to live slower than our fast-paced Western culture deems normal. But it means paddling upstream through strong currents.

Tsh Oxenreider

#3. To be a baby elephant must be wonderful. Surrounded by a loving family 24 hours a day ... . I think it must be how it ought to be, in a perfect world.

Daphne Sheldrick

#4. An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it!

Horace Walpole

#5. Wright and Cowen, who have separately written important scholarly works on the financial history of the early republic, here repackage their research for readers of popular history, and do so impressively.

David Liss

#6. Auburn, catching up with his homies.

Stephen King

#7. And I like his conceit. He's so conceited he's actually humble, the crazy bastard.

J.D. Salinger

#8. There are those photographers who have made a whole career doing commercial work but have never had a museum show, and then there are others who've only had museum shows but couldn't survive for five seconds in the real world of photography. But I've done absolutely everything.

Duane Michals

#9. When your time came, it came, and that was that. You might say something smart on your way out, but you might just as easily say something stupid.

Mitch Albom

#10. If it's a good idea, do it today. Not tomorrow. A good idea rarely gets better over time.

Larry Winget

#11. Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man fortunate.

Aeschylus

#12. The good of the individual by himself is certainly desirable enough, but that of a nation and of cities is nobler and more divine.

Aristotle.