Ashabranner Genealogy Quotes & Sayings

You don't have to be the biggest to beat the biggest. — Ross Perot

confidence. He contained worlds. — Julie Anne Long

There was something different about her, though I could not say exactly what it was. It was as if she were more certain. If someone were sketching her they would use clear, strong lines, whereas before they might have used faint marks and more shading. She was like a fossil that's been cleaned and set so everyone can see what it is. — Tracy Chevalier

In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building. — Minoru Yamasaki

It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character. — Christian Nestell Bovee

A sentimentalist is simply one who wants to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. We think we can have our emotions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing emotions have to be paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine. The intellectual and emotional life of ordinary people is a very contemptible affair. Just as they borrow their ideas from a sort of circulating library of thought - -the Zeitgeist of an age that has no soul - -and send them back soiled at the end of each week, so they always try to get their emotions on credit, and refuse to pay the bill when it comes in. You should pass out of that conception of life. As soon as you have to pay for an emotion you will know its quality, and be the better for such knowledge. And remember that the sentimentalist is always a cynic at heart. Indeed, sentimentality is merely the bank holiday of cynicism. — Oscar Wilde

Seems like every other day there's somebody on the news, somebody gets killed or does something crazy and all the neighbors and everybody says, "I can't believe he did that, I can't believe she did that." — Jack Black

Everybody hurts some days. It's okay to be afraid. Everybody hurts, everybody screams. Everybody feels this way. — Avril Lavigne

When our lives are filled with peace, faith and joy, people will want to know what we have. — David Jeremiah