Sunday, June 13, 2010
Our Heritage Cornerstones - Barns
Post & Beam Barn
Heritage Cornerstones is a selection of noteworthy quotes centered around a theme appropriate for the season. This post focuses on...
~ Barns ~
"Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so not lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character."
R.C. SAMSEL
"Vermont's a place where barns come painted / Red as a strong man's heart / Where stout carts and stout boys in freckles / Are highest forms of art."
ROBERT TRISTRAM COFFIN
"Behold the fowls of the air: For they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet the heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?"
MATTHEW 6:26
"The old barn embodied practices which had suffered no mutilation at the hands of time. Here at least the spirit of the ancient builders was at one with the spirit of the modern beholder."
THOMAS HARDY
"How the cold creeps as the fire dies at lenght / How drifts are piled / Dooryard and road ungraded / Till even the comforting barn grows far away."
ROBERT FROST