Popham Quotes

#1. She was fairly good at any kind of housework not demanding brains. Nobody could say why some of Ossian Popham's gifts of mind and conversation had not descended to his children, but though the son was not really stupid at practical work, Lallie Joy was in a perpetual state of coma.

Kate Douglas Wiggin

#2. Yes, Mr. Popham is a Methodist and I'm a Congregationalist, but I say let the children go where they like, so I always take them with me.

Kate Douglas Wiggin

#3. A human life is a schooling for eternity.

Gottfried Keller

#4. Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

#5. The roaring street is hung for miles With fierce electric fire.

William Vaughn Moody

#6. Dismiss perfection as an ache of the greedy, but do not give in to the mass modesty of easy imperfection.

Charles Bukowski

#7. If you were meant to fly, not even running really fast is that impressive.

Erwin McManus

#8. She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.

William Faulkner

#9. I run me like a conglomerate, because that's what I am.

Willard Scott

#10. Brothers didn't make life easier, not even the jinxed sort of life we'd found ourselves in, I decided. They were tailored by evolution to be annoying.

Caitlin Kittredge

#11. Just because you're thinking about stabbing somebody doesn't mean you have to be a dick about it.

Chris Holm

#12. BUDDHISM teaches that nothing is permanent, nothing is fixed, all is in flux.

Peter Popham

#13. Poor thing, consigned to a life of frivolousness and wretched things for breakfast. Not allowed to go to school or do anything worthwhile, and eel pie besides.

Connie Willis

#14. The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art.

Maria Montessori

#15. It seemed almost inconceivable that in his short marriage to Althea she had, in her quiet way, left him feeling not only worthy, but exceptional, a man not only capable of being a real poet, but a husband and father too.

Andre Dubus III

#16. It's too late. Seventeen-year-olds don't need fathers.
Oh god. I'm thirty-four years old and I need a father. I can't even begin to think what my daughter needs.

Melina Marchetta

#17. Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a great wave of mankind's pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery?

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

#18. There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through ... There needs to be a monster truck option.

Jeph Jacques

#19. even the finest of plans can fail when they're poorly instantiated.

W. James Popham