"The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought."

-- Washington Irving

#Age Quotes #Library Quotes #Buckets Quotes

“The will of the people is the best law.”
“After every show, I say to Hania [Destelle, a friend], â€˜They hated it.â€™”
“I identify with the Clint Eastwoods and Harrison Fords. Those are my heroes.”
“In the season of white wild roses We two went hand in hand: But now in the ruddy autumn Together already we stand.”

Source : Francis Turner Palgrave (1871). “Lyrical Poems”, p.75
“In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.”
“In New Haven, Conn., when I was growing up, there were two sorts of Irish. There were the "drugstore cowboy" micks, who hung around the Elm Street poolroom over Longley's Lunch. And there were the earnest young Irishmen who fought their way up from the Grand Avenue saloonkeeper backgrounds of their fathers, went through Yale Law School, and have now found high place by the preferment of local politics or in the teaching profession.”

Source : JAMES T. FARRELL (1938). “STUDS LONIGAN”
“A daughter of a King of Ireland, heard A voice singing on a May Eve like this, And followed half awake and half asleep, Until she came into the Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue. And she is still there, busied with a dance Deep in the dewy shadow of a wood, Or where stars walk upon a mountain-top.”
“But flowers feed our soul in a different way. They remind us of a God who creates beautiful things and takes notice of the tiniest detail”

Source : FaceBook post by Tricia Goyer from Dec 02, 2014

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