Stanley Crawford famous quotes

Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.
-- Stanley Crawford

#Winter #Thinking #Luxury

To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world.
-- Stanley Crawford

#Dream #Garden #Independence

Next to blood relationships, come water relationships.
-- Stanley Crawford

#Blood #Water #Next

Perhaps it was Maggie, perhaps not. In solitary moments magpies will perch on a branch and mutter soft soliloquies of whines and squeals and chatterings, oblivious to what goes on around them. It is one of those things, I suppose, intelligence now and then does, must in fact now and then do, must think, must play, must imagine, must talk to itself. ... What, finally, intelligence could be for: finding your way back.
-- Stanley Crawford

#Thinking #Play #Bird

There is always something rough and tumble about planting - because with our clumsy implements we must reach from our atmospheric element down into another, down into the darkness of the soil.
-- Stanley Crawford

#Darkness #Earth #Soil

I was a new writer and I was supposed to write all the time, wasn't I? I had not yet discovered that there are times when one can't write, one shouldn't write, times for thought, for deepening, or just reading, or simply living.
-- Stanley Crawford

#Reading #Writing

All in all, this whole period of winter 1919-20 was a single struggle to strengthen confidence in the victorious might of the young movement and raise it to that fanaticism of faith which can move mountains.

The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot. By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.

Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable.

A great number of soundings, mainly along the continental slope of the New England States were also taken by the vessels of the United States Fish Commission. Important soundings were made by the United States Fish Commission steamer ALBATROSS in the Caribbean, during the winter of 1883-1884.

I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.

Denzel Washington's career is an enormous luxury. Compare him to Wesley Snipes.

I don't like posh hotels. I like small, eclectic hotels, and luxury for me would mean really good company with good food in a really funky, beautiful house in the middle of a field where someone came and serviced the place for us.