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
A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.
Everything is sweetened by risk.
If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening - no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air.
Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
In winter, when the dismal rain comes down in slanting lines, and wind, that grand old harper, smote his thunder-harp of pines.
The dining hall is the best place to meet people. I know it's hard to do.