Sassafras Quotes

#1. I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.

Jan Karon

#2. I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate, as if I knew already.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. What does a man live for but to have a girl, use his mind, practice his trade, drink a drink, read a book, and watch the martins wing it for the Amazon and the three-fingered sassafras turn red in October?
Art Immelmann is right. Man is not made for suffering, night sweats, and morning terrors.

Walker Percy

#4. The merriment of everything from foot-high weeds to hundred-foot oaks, rustling in the wind - grave chuckling of maples and alders, titters from groves of sapling sassafras, silly giggling in the raspberry bushes, a huge belly laugh from the oldest hollow ash tree before the freeway interchange.

Diane Duane

#5. Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.

Charles Lamb

#6. Whilst the ships stayed, our allowance was somewhat bettered, by a daily proportion of biscuit, which the sailors would pilfer to sell, give, or exchange with us for money, sassafras, furs, or love.

John Smith

#7. Remember who you are by Gods divine plan and strive to fit into his divine pattern.

Ikechukwu Joseph

#8. In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.

Eric Clapton

#9. How am I, a writer, supposed to feel about having lost you to a reader?

Joshua Cohen

#10. A poet trains himself to stand out in a storm and be struck by lightning. If he is lucky enough to be struck six times, he becomes immortal. Randall Jarrell said it and he's right.

James Dickey

#11. There is magic everywhere around you, but most people are too busy being grownup to notice it.

Sassafras Lowrey

#12. It was deliciously pagan.

Gregory Maguire

#13. Now, as we close one chapter, the pen is gradually inking up, preparing itself to write the next.

Mie Hansson

#14. Spend everyday casual, but industrious Every moment alert, but relaxed.

Guy Finley

#15. It's two lovers that continue to hold each other close but move in life as if they aren't their soul mates because it is deemed necessary.

Alyse M. Gardner

#16. Seriously, though, this wasn't a life and death situation - it was just high school. It's not like anyone was going to bite me.

Stephenie Meyer

#17. Courtney Vance and I are college classmates, weirdly enough. We're both Harvard class of 1982. Courtney, as a work-study job, was a typesetter at the Harvard 'Crimson,' the newspaper where I worked.

Jeffrey Toobin

#18. We turn to books to prove that we exist.

Sassafras Lowrey

#19. She wished now she'd brought that vibrator as a flashlight instead of leaving it on the couch.

Jill Shalvis

#20. You're saying we lost the powers of magic because we grew lazy.

Michael Scott

#21. I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

Lord Byron

#22. We must enter and take possession of the consciences of the children, of the consciences of the young, because they do belong, and should belong to the revolution.

Plutarco Elias Calles