"Frederick Buechner can find grace and redemption even in the shoddiest, phoniest aspects of a cultural wasteland. One reads Lion Country...with hope and delight."

-- Louis Auchincloss

#Country Quotes #Grace Quotes #Delight Quotes

“Wrestling is only gay when you make eye contact.”
“But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture.”
“Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.”

Source : Garry Wills (2013). “Certain Trumpets: The Nature of Leadership”, p.120, Simon and Schuster
“It might be more useful, if not necessarily more true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel and film.”
“Every city, every town, every region in USA has these weird things - the way they pronounce words, or what they call soda, or how people drive. It's a huge country, and there's all these strange pockets of behavioral patterns that social anthropologists could spend lifetimes researching and reporting on.”
“You can fall in love and make love many times but there is only one bullet with your name etched on the side. And if you are lucky enough to be shot with that bullet then the wound never heals.”
“A productive coaching relationship begins with two people with fires in their bellies: one who wants desperately to move forward and another who yearns to help that person make the journey.”
“The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.”

You may also like:

Ada Louise Huxtable
Architectural Critic
Brooke Astor
Writer
Cynthia Ozick
Writer
Edith Wharton
Novelist
Gore Vidal
Writer
John Updike
Novelist
Norman Mailer
Novelist
Wolf Kahn
Painter
Deborah Turbeville