Altmann Brenham Quotes & Sayings

The brain is only three pounds of blood, dream, and electricity, and yet from that mortal stew come Beethoven's sonatas. Dizzie Gillespie's jazz. Audrey Hepburn's wish to spend the last month of her life in Somalia, saving children. — Diane Ackerman

Notwithstanding the security for future repose which the United States ought to find in their love of peace and their constant respect for the rights of other nations, the character of the times particularly inculcates the lesson that, whether to prevent or repel danger, we ought not to be unprepared for it. This consideration will sufficiently recommend to Congress a liberal provision for the immediate extension and gradual completion of the works of defense, both fixed and floating, on our maritime frontier, and an adequate provision for guarding our inland frontier against dangers to which certain portions of it may continue to be exposed.
[7th Annual Message to Congress, Dec. 5, 1815] — James Madison

Let your children go if you want to keep them. — Malcolm Forbes

In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken. — Paracelsus

Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being ... Language should be more than just getting by. — Chogyam Trungpa

Hoping for something to change in the icy parts of our lives is not foolish. Springtime does come, and buds always bloom. — Christa Hesselink