Quote

Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.

Jim Bishop

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jim Bishop
Age: 79 †
Born: 1907
Born: November 21
Died: 1987
Died: July 26
Biographer
Journalist
Jersey City
New Jersey
Environment
Fall
Pocket
Carries
Carrie
Autumn
Pockets
Seasons
Gold

More quotes by Jim Bishop

Image
When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?
Jim Bishop
Image
A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
Jim Bishop
Image
A golf ball can stop in the fairway, rough, woods, bunker or lake. With five equally likely options, very few balls choose the fairway.
Jim Bishop
Image
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.
Jim Bishop
Image
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
Jim Bishop
Image
To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.
Jim Bishop
Image
Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.
Jim Bishop
Image
It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.
Jim Bishop
Image
Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.
Jim Bishop
Image
Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.
Jim Bishop
Image
Raising a child is very much like building a skyscraper. If the first few stories are slightly out of line. no one will notice. But when the building is 18 or 20 stories high, everyone will see that it tilts.
Jim Bishop
Image
True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds - a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.
Jim Bishop
Image
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
Jim Bishop
Image
At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.
Jim Bishop
Image
Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.
Jim Bishop
Image
A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.
Jim Bishop
Image
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
Jim Bishop