Betail Gras Quotes & Sayings

I began my tale in the hope that I might produce something to interest the young (perchance, also, the old) in a most momentous case - the total abolition of the African slave-trade. I close it with the prayer that God may make it a tooth in the file which shall eventually cut the chain of slavery, and set the black man free. — R.M. Ballantyne

Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master. — H.L. Mencken

Although biodiversity loss continues globally, many countries are significantly slowing the rate of loss by shoring up protected natural areas and the services they provide, and in expanding national park systems with tighter management and more secure funding. — Helen Clark

No, I always wanted to be a singer. It was kind of funny that I took this road, started acting, then-almost ten years later-in Wayne's World people finally got to see me sing. And everyone thought it was dubbed in. — Tia Carrere

Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself. — Giorgio Baglivi

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing. — Barbara Stanwyck

The Only Group That Can Categorize Everything Is Everybody — Clay Shirky

Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be? — Nigel Farage

The term religious cleansing is an accurate and effective way of expressing the current hostility and bigotry toward all civic expressions of religion ... these religious cleansers use political and legal means of containment. They are America's new anti-faith bigots. — Jay Sekulow

Myron sipped his coffee. Gourmet coffee. A year ago he never drank coffee. Then he started stopping into one of the new coffee bars that kept cropping up like bad movies on cable. — Harlan Coben

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit of doing them — Benjamin Jowett