(8 quotes found)
“It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.”
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
“A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary”
“Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell”
“Our imaginations seem to have been torn open . . . as by a charge of dynamite.”
“Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.”
“Like other potentates with a long habit of arbitrary authority, she covered her perplexity with a smart show of decision.”
“If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two week's vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our bu”
“Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!”