Top 19 White Heron Quotes
#2. In a shadowy place something white flew up. It was a heron, and it went away over the dark treetops. William Wallace followed it with his eyes and Brucie clapped his hands, but Virgil gave a sigh, as if he knew that when you go looking for what is lost, everything is a sign.
("The Wide Net")
Eudora Welty
#3. Lynx stood and raced to the camp. "Attend to our injured!" She unsheathed a machete and made for Hare's killer.
Heron grabbed her wrist. "Wait. He's still conscious."
"Then he will feel my machete," she replied, voice like ice.
Gwynn White
#4. Celibacy was a choice; asexual was just who he was.
Sam Burke
#5. He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.
Gautama Buddha
#7. I was raised with this idea of hard work and keeping doors open. To be able to choose what you want to do in the future. That was what we tried to tell our children, too.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
#9. This morning
the beautiful white heron
was floating along above the water
and then into the sky of this
the one world
we all belong to
where everything
sooner or later
is a part of everything else
which thought made me feel
for a little while
quite beautiful myself.
Mary Oliver
#10. The only difference between a flower and a weed is judgement.
Wayne Dyer
#11. The great universal literature has always had a tragic relation with freedom. The Greeks renounced absolute freedom and imposed order on chaotic mythology, like a tyrant.
Ismail Kadare
#12. I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men
Charles Darwin
#13. I just made a killing in the stock market
I shot my broker.
Henny Youngman
#14. In a snowfall that covers the winter grass a white heron uses his own whiteness to disappear.
Dogen
#15. The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can.
John Prine
#16. Gray Man. The Gray Man was created by Sarah Orne Jewett and appeared in "The Gray Man" (A White Heron and Other Stories, 1886). Jewett also created Lady Ferry. "The Gray Man" is one of Jewett's best supernatural short stories, which means it is very good indeed.
Jess Nevins
#17. Problems are there to be solved. How dull life would be without them.
Philip Sington
#18. Hopefully, with some years of practice and just getting to that state, I'll try extreme sports again.
Taraka Larson
#19. I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee.
Gil Scott-Heron
