Alexander Smith
Alexander Smith
Sir Alexander Lockwood Smith KNZMis the current High Commissioner of New Zealand to the United Kingdom and a former New Zealand politician who served as the 28th Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2008 to 2013. Smith is a member of the New Zealand National Party and served as a Member of Parliamentfrom 1984 until his retirement to pursue diplomatic roles in 2013. He represented first the Kaipara electorate and then Rodney, and has held a number of Cabinet...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 August 1948
Alexander Smith quotes about
My heart like moon-charmed waters, all unrest...
Death takes away the commonplace of life.
I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.
In winter, when the dismal rain comes down in slanting lines, and wind, that grand old harper, smote his thunder-harp of pines.
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.
Books are a finer world within the world.
Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.
If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
A great man is the man who does something for the first time.