B. W. Procter Quotes

The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!

To say that I am organized is an understatement, but my car tells a different story.

I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor.

I squirrel away sealed greeting cards that people give me so I can open them later when I'm having a bad day.

It's amazing what sleep does for your looks.

Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.

Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.

I feel like 'CSI: Miami' was just a license to do all sorts of horrible things that I'd always wanted to do.

No star is lost once we have seen, We always may be what we might have been.

Dreams grow holy put in action.

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!

One by one the sands are flowing, One by one the moments fall; Some are coming, some are going; Do not strive to grasp them all.

One by one bright gifts from heaven Joys are sent thee here below; Take them readily when given, Ready, too, to let them go.

Shadows fall on even the brightest hours.

Kinds hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one Have limits to its mercy; God has none.

Pity speaks to grief more sweetly than a band of instruments.

I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea! I am where I would ever be, With the blue above and the blue below, And silence wheresoever I go.

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

I always wear high heels.

180 episodes of 'CSI: Miami' and never the same lipstick twice!

So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!

Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn, Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute, Are half so sweet as tender human words.

I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.

I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license photo looks like a blonde Elvis.

Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.

Do no cheat thy Heart and tell her, 'Grief will pass away.'

Hours are golden links, God's token Reaching heaven; but one by one Take them, lest the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done.

Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new; One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.

Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.

Do not look at life's long sorrow; see how small each moment's pain.

I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.

Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst of 't is we now and then detect em, they ever dream that we suspect em.

How silent are the winds!

If you live in a small space, you should do the things that make it feel luxurious.

I never wear pants in my life. I never thought I'd say this, but I miss wearing pants. For the first time in my life, I miss my pants.

A single star is rising in the east, and from afar sheds a most tremulous lustre; silent Night doth wear it like a jewel on her brow.

It's not a bad idea to be single, so I can concentrate on my job.

I can feel the knee or the foot. The baby is starting to get heavy, and it’s a really incredible feeling. I’m so grateful I get to experience this.

In college, I was a weather anchor for the local news. I would 'borrow' my forecast from The Weather Channel.

I always felt my emancipation into truly being a grown-up was when I had to figure out how to fold up a king-size fitted bottom sheet on my own.

Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.

When I was 8, my favorite toy was a stapler. My brother was afraid of me.

Before you're a mom you don't know what gear is going to be relevant.

What I know from my friends who are cops is they keep their houses very clean, because they say you never know if you're coming back or not.

I've always known I was adopted.

Having a crying baby is inspiration to get the job done quickly.

Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible?

Each man has some part to play.

Despair doth strike as deep a furrow in the brain as mischief or remorse.