George Bird Grinnell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.
What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!
When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.
In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
I say to this night: "Pass more slowly"; and the dawn will come to dispel the night.
Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today!
We could have made it to the Arizona border in a few more hours if we hadn't been distracting each other with stupid little arguments. Don't get me wrong; I liked J.Lo fine. I've made that bed. But I'm not sure there's a person in the world I could be with twenty-four hours a day for three weeks without getting a little snippy. If I ever meet such a person, I'm marrying them.
You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.
At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.

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