Sam Walter Foss Quotes

#1. I say the very things that make the greatest StirAn' the most interestin' things, are things that did n't occur.

Sam Walter Foss

#2. Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.

Sam Walter Foss

#3. Harshness is for the good of a boy, soft-heartedness will ruin him.

Ihara Saikaku

#4. An experience like that changes your perspective on life and on the world

Mark Shuttleworth

#5. Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.

Sam Walter Foss

#6. She had this amazing capacity to turn sadness into anger and anger into action, which meant nothing ever kept her down for long.

Ransom Riggs

#7. Strew gladness on the paths of men-You will not pass this way again.

Sam Walter Foss

#8. A hundred thousand men were led By one calf near three centuries dead; They followed still his crooked way And lost a hundred years a day; For thus such reverence is lent To well established precedent.

Sam Walter Foss

#9. Most people like to live in illusions.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#10. W'en you see a man in woe, Walk right up and say hullo. Say hullo and how d'ye do, How's the world a-usin' you? . W'en you travel through the strange Country t'other side the range, Then the souls you've cheered will know Who you be, an' say hullo.

Sam Walter Foss

#11. Just drop your bucket where you are.

Sam Walter Foss

#12. I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Rosa Parks

#13. Where shall we get religion? Beneath the open sky, the sphere of crystal silence surcharged with deity.. The midnight earth sends incense up, sweet with the breath of prayer
Go out beneath the naked night and get religion there.

Sam Walter Foss

#14. There are purple grapes in the Land of Git-Thare.

Sam Walter Foss

#15. Plenty of girls saw college as some sort of exploratory period.

Tammara Webber

#16. For all those who are interested in the spiritual, emotional, intellectual, esthetic, historical or any other aspects of our dance art ... It is high time that our universities had faculties for dance, giving the art its due place in the academic world.

Padma Subrahmanyam

#17. Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.

Sam Walter Foss

#18. One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should; But made a trail all bent askew, A crooked trail as all calves do ... And men two centuries and a half Trod in the footsteps of that calf.

Sam Walter Foss

#19. I wanted to walk straight on through the red grass and over the edge of the world, which could not be very far away.

Willa Cather

#20. Television, I love it, everything that happened before television lumped together, never caused folks to turn on a street to stare at me, or waitresses to ask for autographs.

Bennett Cerf

#21. The woods were made for the hunters of dreams,
The brooks for the fishers of song;
To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game
The streams and the woods belong.

Sam Walter Foss