Berettas Memphis Quotes & Sayings

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies ... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it. — Albert Einstein

We all have that heritage, no matter what old land our fathers left. All colors and blends of Americans have somewhat the same tendencies. It's a breed - selected out by accident. And so we're overbrave and overfearful - we're kind and cruel as children. We're overfriendly and at the same time frightened of strangers. We boast and are impressed. We're oversentimental and realistic. We are mundane and materialistic - and do you know of any other nation that acts for ideals? We eat too much. We have no taste, no sense of proportion. We throw our energy about like waste. In the old lands they say of us that we go from barbarism to decadence without an intervening culture. Can it be that our critics have not the key or the language of our culture? — John Steinbeck

In another letter he says: A man may be constitutionally meek as the lamb, constitutionally kind as the spaniel, constitutionally cheerful as the lark, and constitutionally modest as the owl; but these things are not sanctification. No sweet, humble, heavenly tempers, no sanctifying graces, are found but from the cross. — J.C. Ryle

We grew to know the meaning of love. That is what allowed me and my family to stay close together. — Martin Lawrence

I'm more interested in character. Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on it. — Elaine De Kooning

No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority. — Livy

The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete. — Plotinus

The golden eye of justice sees, and requites the unjust man. — Sophocles

There was a silence. Hannah's own heart was twisted with the force of her love for him. Her eyes were full. — L.J.Smith

There is no life but this. — Henry David Thoreau