Andrew Wood Quotes & Sayings

Once upon a time there lived a King and Queen whose children had all died, first one and then another, until at last only one little daughter remained, and the Queen was at her wits' end to know where to find a really good nurse who would take care of her, and bring her up. A herald was sent who blew a trumpet at every street corner, and commanded all the best nurses to appear before the Queen, that she might choose one for the little Princess. So on the appointed day the whole palace was crowded with nurses, who came from the four corners of the world to offer themselves, until the Queen declared that if she was ever to see the half of them, they must be brought out to her, one by one, as she sat in a shady wood near the palace. — Andrew Lang

For God's sake, get down off the cross - someone else needs the wood." He grinned widely. "I always wanted to be able to use that." "Smartass," I retorted. "Well, Christ on the cross didn't groan as much as you are. — Andrew Grey

For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire. — Beah Richards

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful. — Friedrich Nietzsche

What has become clear to me is that it is not the inherent nature of being gay that causes such a reduced life; it is, rather, the social circumstances around being gay: the perceptions of it and the cultural norms that it is said to violate. As some of those norms have changed, I have been able to be gay, to have a marriage, to have a family, and to have - if there is wood to knock on - a fortunate and happy life. — Andrew Solomon

Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does. — Lance Armstrong

I never want to draw attention to myself, but that's all I do. — Slash

Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that. — Layne Staley

Because, in an empty bedroom with creaky old wood floors, it is a natural human response to just stand there and shift your weight from foot to foot, and think about sex. — Andrew Smith

The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that
helps him get through the day — Scott Adams

Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect. — Horace

The ruler who is good for anything ought not to beg his subjects to be ruled by him, although the present governors of mankind are of a different stamp. — Plato

He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the day, only raises crabs and choke pears, deserves to lose the respect of all sensible men. — Andrew Jackson Downing

All who wish to hand down to their children that happy republican system bequeathed to them by their revolutionary fathers, must now take their stand against this consolidating, corrupting money power, and put it down, or their children will become hewers of wood and drawers of water to this aristocratic ragocracy. — Andrew Jackson

As Pragmatic Programmers, our base material isn't wood or iron, it's knowledge. We gather requirements as knowledge, and then express that knowledge in our designs, implementations, tests, and documents. — Andrew Hunt

All things are possible through invitation and love. — Bryant McGill