1st Cav Quotes & Sayings

We are all caught up, entangled, in the lumbering day-to-day operations of a [social] machinery, working in many respects in the service of ends which we as Christians reject. This situation, the present [schizophrenic] situation of thousands of thinking Christians is the end product of a process that began the day Christians first decided to stop thinking Christianly in the interests of national harmony; the day when Christians first felt that the only way out of endless public discussion was to limit the operation of acute Christian awareness to the spheres of personal morality and spirituality.
From that point, the spheres of political, cultural, social, and commercial life became dominated by pragmatic and utilitarian thinking. — Harry Blamires

My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man. — Chief Joseph

The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world. — Jane Byrne

(Until the end of their lives, these men and women would tell stories about the summer they followed Lyndon Johnson and his Flying Windmill around Texas; as Oliver Knight of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram would write about one trip, "That mad dash from Navasota to Conroe in which I dodged stumps at 70 MPH just to keep up with that contraption will ever be green in my memory.") At the landing site, there would be the brief respite — Robert A. Caro

My dad once told me life would get complicated when I grew up. I'm guessing this isn't what he meant. My mom, on the other hand, agreed with him, and I'm guessing this kind of thing is exactly what she meant. — Susan Ee

To drown in treacle is just as unpleasant as to drown in mud. — Idries Shah

Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people. — Hu Shih

If there are to be atomic bombs in the world," Groves argued, "we must have the best, the biggest, and the most. — Anonymous