Wilfred Grenfell Quotes

“The service we render others is really the rent we pay for our room on Earth.”

“The service we render others is really the rent we pay for our room on Earth.”

“The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.”

“Courage is always the surest wisdom.”

“I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich.”

“If I should go before the rest of youBreak not a flower nor inscribe a stone, Nor when I'm gone speak in a Sunday voice But be the usual selves that I have known. Weep if you must, Parting is hell, But life goes on, So sing as well.”

“Now, Joyce being Joyce, he has about five different purposes, one not being enough for genius.”

“In a sense, Joyce was Beckett's Don Quixote, and Beckett was his Sancho Panza. Joyce aspired to the One; Beckett encapsulated the fragmented many. But as each author accomplished his task, it was in the service of the other. Ultimately, Beckett's landscapes would resound with articulate silence, and his empty spaces would collect within themselves the richness of multiple shadows--a physicist would say the negative particles--of all that exists in absence, as in the white patches of an Abstract Expressionist painting. Becket would evoke, on his canvasses of vast innuendo and through the interstices of conscious and unconscious thought, the richness that Joyce had made explicit in words and intricate structure.”

“Turn your situation over to God because He can do more in a moment than you can do in a lifetime. – Joyce Meyer”

“Music is stored in our long-term memory. When we learn something through music, we tend to remember it longer and believe it more deeply. Dr. Joyce Brothers”

“A man [Joyce] whose earliest stories appeared next to the manure prices in the Irish Homestead knew that columns of prose, like columns of shit, could both recultivate the earth.”