Basham Quotes & Sayings

It is not easy for church members, who for years have been complacent and satisfied in their religious habits, to admit something vital may have been missing from their religion. Norman — Don Basham

It is not wholly surprising, however, that, when India began to reassert herself, two nations should have replaced the single British Raj; but all impartial students must regret that the unity of the Indian sub-continent has been once more lost, and trust that the two great nations of India and Pakistan may soon forget the bitterness born of centuries of strife, in cooperation for the common welfare of their peoples. — Arthur Llewellyn Basham

The workers who built the settlements and produced the export crops may now enjoy their freedom in the world's largest prison.58 — Noam Chomsky

I blew amps like they were made of tissue paper. Once I blew out the sound system at Royal Albert Hall in London. — Dick Dale

I'm going to be a princess that fights dragons. Ain't no good to sit up in your tower and watch the prince have all the fun. — Pepper D. Basham

Some were scattered about the ring, one or two went in the sawdust tub, one I spat out as I fell, and I am thundering sure I swallowed a couple — Johnny Basham

Oh, what a beautiful child in the arms of a handsome man. She'd never seen anything on earth more endearing... even attractive. Was there anything on earth more attractive? — Pepper D. Basham

Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is. I dunno. If the Eiffel tower were now representing the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle-knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that that skin what what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno. — Mark Twain

You have a choice. Take hold of your future or the past will take it for you. — Pepper D. Basham

Time is a powerful friend or adversary. — Pepper D. Basham

Each time you allow the past to hold your future, [he] steals more and more from you. — Pepper D. Basham

I'm living in the present. I have no ambition. It's true. But I want to live. — Gerard Depardieu

On the first day Coraline's family moved in, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible made a point of telling Coraline how dangerous the well was, and they warned her to be sure she kept away from it. So Coraline set off to explore for it, so that she knew where it was, to keep away from it properly. — Neil Gaiman

When I started at XCRF in 1960, Mexico was the most lenient country in the world when it came to radio. — Wolfman Jack

God holds us. We are protected by His grip in such a precious way that the good and the bad must pass through His fingers to us. No harm, fear, or pain can reach us without His allowance, and yet, it is a loving grip. A loving allowance we cannot understand until time has frayed our pride and tempered our heartbreak. And even then, our only answer may be to trust His love more than our understanding. — Pepper D. Basham

The Anglican service today was more familiar to me from movies. Like one of the great Shakespeare speeches, the graveside oration, studded in fragments in the memory, was a succession of brilliant phrases, book titles, dying cadences that breathed life, pure alertness, along the spine. — Ian McEwan

She had imagined Jace leaping from the bed in astonishment and gasping something like "Egad!" This didn't happen-largely, she suspected, because Jace had seen much stranger things in his life, and also because nobody used the word "Egad!" anymore. His eyes widened, though. — Cassandra Clare

The countryside stretched green and alive from her perch on the hill....She breathed in the air of a free woman and marveled at how her clarity of spirit even seemed to affect her vision. Brighter colors. Fresher air. — Pepper D. Basham

The soft song from the past threatened to awaken feelings and memories she avoided like black-eyed peas and family reunions. — Pepper D. Basham