Bergqvist Charitable Trust Quotes & Sayings

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day. — Willie Mays

Seeing with better eyes We can recognize that the offender is a valuable human being who struggles with the same needs, pressures, and confusions that we struggle with. We will recognize that the incident really may not have been about us in the first place. Instead it was about the wrongdoer's misguided attempt to meet his or her own needs. As we regard offenders from this point of view (regardless of whether they repent and regardless of what they have done or suffered), we will be in a position to forgive them. — Elbert Hubbard

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. — George Bernard Shaw

Can I just sit here for a moment? Human contact, and all that. There's one thing you don't get much in Starfleet - a hug. They ought to have a couple of people in charge of hugs, just to dispense them randomly. — John Vornholt

A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds. — Benjamin Franklin

The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the sun. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

I can flip my tongue over. Only one in 10,000 people can. I learned that at Ripley's Believe It or Not! — Gabourey Sidibe

There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing. — Manute Bol

She had a new feeling, the feeling of danger; on which a new remedy rose to meet it, the idea of an inner self or, in other words, of concealment. — Henry James

To me, the summer wind in the Midwest is one of the most melancholy things in all life. It comes from so far away and blows so gently and yet so relentlessly; it rustles the leaves and the branches of the maple trees in a sort of symphony of sadness, and it doesn't pass on and leave them still. It just keeps coming, like the infinite flow of Old Man River. You could
and you do
wear out your lifetime on the dusty plains with that wind of futility blowing in your face. And when you are worn out and gone, the wind
still saying nothing, still so gentle and sad and timeless
is still blowing across the prairies, and will blow in the faces of the little men who follow you, forever. — Ernie Pyle

Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. — Bil Keane