Great saying by great authors Quote by Hilda Doolittle

From its fountains In the mountains, Its rills and its gills; Through moss and through brake, It runs and it creeps For awhile till…

— Robert Southey

“I think locality exercises strange influence over some minds. The peaceful meadow-scenery holds no lurking horrors in its bosom, but in the lonesome moorlands,…

— Elliott O'Donnell

If there is a lack of specificity in Grossman's description of the town and the walkers, and if the story perhaps sometimes becomes lost…

— Ian Sansom

It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.

— Francois Rabelais

“This afternoon, being on Fair Haven Hill, I heard the sound of a saw, and soon after from the Cliff saw two men sawing…

— Henry David Thoreau

Everything must go its own way. One has to plow in order to sow, one has to sow in order to harvest, and what…

— Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill.

— Katharine Lee Bates

“dirt lane ran behind these old double lots built for beach cottages early in the last century. Back then not every house had flush…

— Mar Preston

I'm getting quite into ancient barrows and the like these days.

— Helen Baxendale

In a long journey straw waighs.

— George Herbert

There will grow from straws a mighty heap.

— Ovid

“children listen to superstitious tales, the story goes, that that spot, in the heart of the "Big Cane," is a haunted place. For more…

— Solomon Northup