Binyon Eye Quotes & Sayings

Trees are worth more alive than dead — Prince

Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws; they either have to conquer everybody or be hated by the whole human race ... — Voltaire

It is not much better to fall honourably in defence of liberty, than be again exposed to the outrages of Romans? Such, at least, is my resolution; as for you men, you may, if you please, live and be slaves! — QueenBoadicea

Myself, I'm a post-ideological conservative. — Christopher Buckley

The money has always been wasted on me. I don't care for beautiful things, funnily enough. I am my father's daughter. The things that excite me are the smell of a wood-burning stove, uncultivated fields. My house is decaying and falling to pieces. It's not had the love it deserves over twenty years. — Alison Moyet

Would you rather die like a hero or live like a coward? — Kate Lord Brown

We have on this earth what makes life worth living: April's hesitation, the aroma of bread at dawn, a woman's point of view about men, the works of Aeschylus, the beginning of love, grass on a stone, mothers living on a flute's sigh and the invaders' fear of memories. — Mahmoud Darwish

I call my ring Procter and Gamble, because David paid for it through his first commercial from Head & Shoulders. When I met David, he was waiting tables. He was below broke, in deep debt, but I followed my heart. When you're looking for a mate, don't look at his current status, but his present potential that will become a part of his future. — Alysia Reiner

A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to. — Wyclef Jean

My career was about to change radically, in turning 50 I had hit the age where my Dad made a big career and his life started to unravel. — Kenny Loggins

What I do know now, and didn't know then is that, in the long run, motive matters more with good deeds than it does with bad. When all the guilt and shame for the bad we've done have run their course, it's the good we did that can save us. — Gregory David Roberts

Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time. — Eckhart Tolle

Two children, all alone and no one by,
Holding their tattered frocks, thro'an airy maze
Of motion lightly threaded with nimble feet
Dance sedately; face to face they gaze,
Their eyes shining, grave with a perfect pleasure. — Laurence Binyon