Begyn Excavating Quotes & Sayings

It is our firm conviction that mankind will live the happier when it has learned to live with music more worthily. Whoever works to promote this end, in one way or another, has not lived in vain. — Zoltan Kodaly

I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by any innovation. — Pope Leo I

It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning — Albert Camus

We had an episode where Bud asks his dad, I was named after the beer, right, Dad? And Ed ONeill, who played my dad, says, Uh ... Right, son! My theory is that Bud Bundy was named after marijuana. — David Faustino

The word 'teach' suddenly conveys a sense of menace that is foreign to me. — Anna Bayes

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home. — Joel Osteen

At Christmas, individuals are apportioned their roles in the family script - you're either the funny one or the sensitive one; or you either do the cooking or the washing up. And those roles aren't easy to change. — Tom Hiddleston

I think it's really important to create spiritual revolutionaries. — Beryl Bender Birch

SELF PORTRAIT: Throwing Armfuls of Air into the Air — Jandy Nelson

I was a working-class kid from Boston. But I never lost my accent because I felt like that was what I was doing. I didn't have to perform Woody Guthrie like Bob Dylan did in the '60s, I just had to make myself be Eileen Myles and let that be my shield. — Eileen Myles

Someone once bought me loads of clothes from a charity shop - and sent them to me in a black bin liner. That was weird. I went through it and it was full of bizarre outfits like Abba costumes. — Suzanne Shaw

Mrs. Casey, do you love Christmas?
Well you know, she answered reflectively, Christmas can be a sad time for people too. It's a remembering time for us older ones. We remember the people who are gone.
Oh, I never thought of that, I told her in surprise.
Well that's youth for you, she said; you don't start to look back over your shoulder until there is something to look back at, and around Christmas I tend to think of the Christmases past and the people gone with them. — Alice Taylor

So: Ask yourself not, Am I full ?
but, Is my hunger gone?
That moment will arrive several bites sooner. — Michael Pollan

It's great to have him watching my back without standing in my way. — A.G. Howard