Memorial Bridge
The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn ~ David Russell
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets. ~ Oscar Wilde
Rockport, Massachusetts
As the devil said to Noah, “It’s bound to clear up.” ~ English Proverb
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
~ Russell Baker
Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~ Chinese Proverb
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. ~Pablo Picasso
Surfside Beach, South Carolina
We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came. ~ John F. Kennedy
I regret less the road not taken than my all-fired hurry along the road I took. ~Robert Brault
Brookgreen Gardens
Within every block of wood and stone, there dwells a spirit, waiting to be released. ~ Hap Hagood
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
All architecture is great architecture after sunset
~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk. ~ Ayn Rand
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. ~ Thomas Browne
Rockport, Massachusetts
Balance is the perfect state of still water… It remains quiet within and is not disturbed on the surface. ~ Confucius
Summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ~ Henry James
Cats have it all admiration, endless sleep and company only when they want it. ~ Rod McKuen
Crane Estate
Ipswich, Massachusetts
The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. ~ John Ruskin
You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person.
~ Alec Waugh
Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked. ~Ralph Ellison
Hammond Castle
Gloucester, Massachusetts
Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change – this is the rhythm of living. ~ Bruce Barton
Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ~ Oscar Wilde
Boston
At sunset
Nature is painting for us… day after day… pictures of infinite beauty. ~ John Ruskin
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. ~ Coco Chanel
Give me the splendid silent sun
at sunset. ~ Walt Whitman
The peace and beauty of a spring day had descended upon the earth like a benediction. ~ Kate Chopin
Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror. ~ Louis Henry Sullivan
Portsmouth
Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. ~Norman Mailer
Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.
~ A.W. Tozer
Cape Ann
Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.
~ Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
Get mad, then get over it. ~ Colin Powell
Turmoil stimulates ~ Thomas Leonard
There are mortgages on every castle in the air
A man said to the universe:
“Sir I exist!”
“However,” replied the universe,
“The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation.”
~ Stephen Crane
I said to my soul, be still, and wait…So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. ~ T.S. Eliot
Civilisation is a movement and not a condition; a voyage and not a harbour. ~ Toynbee
Wagon Hill Farm
The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective. ~ Al Neuharth
A human being is only breath and shadow. ~ Sophocles
Savannah, Georgia
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. ~Lao Tzu
It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
~ Eric Hoffer
All houses are haunted. All persons are haunted. Throngs of spirits follow us everywhere. We are never alone. ~
Barney Sarecky
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream by night. – Edgar Allen Poe
South Carolina
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.
Fulton J. Sheen
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it is going.
Wayne Gretsky
And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming.
And the lamplight o’er him streaming
throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted—nevermore!
~ Edgar Allen Poe
Learn to pause… or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.
~ Doug King
There is great meaning in life for those who are willing to journey.
~ Jim England
Boston
Out of the earth a fabric huge
Rose, like an exhalation.
John Milton, Paradise Lost
Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon. ~ Bruno Zevi
One martini is all right, two is two many, three is not enough ~ James Thurber
Strawberry Bank
Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks
I am the blossom pressed in a book,
found again after two hundred years. . .
I am the maker, the lover, and the keeper. . .
When the young girl who starves
sits down to a table
she will sit beside me. . .I am water rushing to the wellhead,
filling the pitcher until it spills. . .
I am the patient gardener
of the dry and weedy garden. . .I am the stone step,
the latch, and the working hinge. . .
I am the heart contracted by joy. . .the longest hair, white
before the rest. . .I am there in the basket of fruit
presented to the widow. . .I am the musk rose opening
unattended, the fern on the boggy summit. . .
I am food on the prisoner’s plate. .
I am the one whose love
overcomes you, already with you
when you think to call my name. . . .Jane Kenyon
