David McCord Quotes (11 Quotes)

By and by God caught his eye.

Your life will be rich for others only as it is rich for you.

The high-ceilinged rooms, the little balconies, alcoves, nooks and angles all suggest sanctuary, escape, creature comfort. The reader, the scholar, the browser, the borrower is king.

Still for us where Cottons mather In the spring the Willas cather As of yore.

March is outside the door Flaming some old desire As man turns uneasily from his fire.

A handful of sand is an anthology of the universe.

Life is the garment we continually alter but which never seems to fit.

The crickets gone, we only hear machines In erg and atom they exact their pay. And life is largely lived on silver screens.

There was a need for it. I talked to my wife . . . This community has been good to us, and we're happy to give as much as we can.

But man must light for man The fires no other can, And find in his own eye Where the strange crossroads lie.

The decent docent doesn't doze He teaches standing on his toes. His student dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was.