Beckan Quotes & Sayings

They hammered on the outer gate and called, but there was at first no answer; and then to their surprise someone blew a horn, and the lights in the windows went out. A voice shouted in the dark: 'Who's that? Be off! You can't come in. Can't you read the notice: No admittance between sundown and sunrise?' 'Of course we can't read the notice in the dark,' Sam shouted back. 'And if hobbits of the Shire are to be kept out in the wet on a night like this, I'll tear down your notice when I find it. — J.R.R. Tolkien

**** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! — David Farragut

That's one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they'll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons. — Dave Grohl

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us. — Bergen Evans

Sometimes you do get tired in the business from all the traveling. No one outside of the business realizes what we go through ... Sometimes you don't mean to be unkind, but sometimes you're tired and do things you don't mean. I know the real fans understand. — Tammy Wynette

Likewise, if you take away the librarians and the staff, but leave the books, the computers, and the architecture, you will have a fine sculpture of a library that will become a snapshot of the community's past. But, if you threw out the books and the building and left a dedicated group of library professionals, you could invite the public in a they would construct the future. — R. David Lankes

I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart. — Christie Brinkley

Pause your opinions, debating and absolute knowing for long enough to conceive gratitude. — Bryant McGill

County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties. — Arthur Capper

It's just something the tightropers used to say," she says. "At first we thought they were mocking us - if one of got a little extra food, they'd tell us, 'someone is looking out for you,' but then we started noticing they'd say it to each other. If one of the generals' small sons fell and didn't get hurt - 'someone is looking out for you.'"
Beckan is confused. "Who's looking out for you?"
"I think someone you met once or twice who you didn't know was important," she says. "You just passed by them and had no idea they were secretly taking care of you. Maybe they don't know either. — Hannah Moskowitz