But to the slave mother New Years day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns. – Harriet Ann Jacobs
The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening – theres something to be said for that. – Ian Somerhalder