"From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages."

-- Lady Gregory

#Son Quotes #Bird Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I'd sleep under a Vermeer.”
“Hour-long TV is no joke. It tests you as a human being. It makes you a stronger person, but it's really crazy.”
“Washington has always had a pretty healthy amount of self-loathing.”
“It's really important for your health, because you will never use as much salt and fat and sugar as a corporation will use cooking for you.”
“The air is like a butterfly With frail blue wings. The happy earth looks at the sky And sings.”

Source : Joyce Kilmer (1946). “Joyce Kilmer”
“A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world. Losing it meant losing my ties to all those things too.”

Source : Laila Lalami (2014). “The Moor's Account”, p.5, Simon and Schuster
“I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.”

Source : Jim Harrison, Robert J. DeMott (2002). “Conversations with Jim Harrison”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“I never pay a fortune for clothes.”

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