Birkenhead Quotes & Sayings

Inspiration starts somewhere. — Bill Gates

The altimeter had been damaged along the way, but the few bottles that we brought along to wash down the ordinary expedition rations were fine. True, a bottle gives only a vague indication of altitude, but can you drink an altimeter? — Erhard Loretan

Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of some one else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly
that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to oneself. Of course they are charitable. They feed the hungry, and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion
these are the two things that govern us. — Oscar Wilde

There is no distance greater than the thickness of a human skull."

2000 Miles for Dinner, Marie Claire — Peter Birkenhead

I do not deal with subtleties; I am only a lawyer. — F. E. Smith, 1st Earl Of Birkenhead

Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran . — Algernon Charles Swinburne

We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration of this aphorism in the records of Somerset House. — F. E. Smith, 1st Earl Of Birkenhead

Reyna looked at Percy without much hope. "You do have a plan?"
Percy wanted to step forward bravely and say, No, I don't! — Rick Riordan

Were cricket and football abolished, it would bring upon the masses nothing but misery, depression, sloth, indiscipline and disorder. — F. E. Smith, 1st Earl Of Birkenhead

I stood on the old ferry dock and watched the icy sludge slide by. Patches of white ice slipped through, but mostly it was grey slush, sluggish and heavy looking. The air was sharp and clear, one of the few benefits of the evacuation and reducing temperature, the centuries-old odour of industry and modern life frozen and discarded, leaving a crispness previously only found among the peaks of mountain ranges. On the far bank stood the ruins of Birkenhead, where the riots had been particularly bad and the fires that followed were allowed to rage out of control. It had taken weeks for the conflagration to finally die, leaving behind soot-blackened husks of buildings, grotesque sculptures of melted glass and metal and more dead than anyone ever cared to count. — Neil Davies

There was this cold monster inside him, this beast that was impossible to spit out. However hard he fought, however much he denied it, tried to make each morning the first rather than the last, he was waging a war he had lost in advance. — Caryl Ferey

Now, her mother lifts Kavita's head up out of her lap and holds her face, hot with tears, in her cool hands. "I am glad it is you who is going," her mother whispers.
Kavita looks up at her with shock.
"I won't worry about you, Kavita. You have strength. Fortitude. Shakti. Bombay will bring you hardship. But you, beti, have the strength to endure it."
And through her mother's words and her hands, Kavita feels it - shakti, the sacred feminine force that flows from the Divine Mother to all those who have come after her. — Shilpi Somaya Gowda

A people so individual in its genius, so tenacious in love or hate, so captivating in its nobler moods. — F. E. Smith, 1st Earl Of Birkenhead

Economies are risky. Some industries rise, and others implode, like housing. Some places get richer, and others drop, like Atlantic City. Some people get new jobs that pay better, many lose their jobs or their wages. — Robert Reich

at Birkenhead, near Liverpool, designed and built the world's first municipal park. This park so captivated the American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted that he modeled Central Park in New York on it. — Bill Bryson

I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world. — Mark Twain

There's only one head bigger than Tony Greig's - and that's Birkenhead — Fred Trueman

Civility also requires relearning how to disagree without being disagreeable. Surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith or, for that matter, my citizenship. — Barack Obama

1. Someone to love 2. Something to do 3. Something to look forward to — Jama Hare

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head. — Margot Asquith

Both of the Villa scorers were born in Liverpool, as was the Villa manager, who was born in Birkenhead. — David Coleman

To stand on the firing parapet and expose yourself to danger; to stand and fight a thousand miles from home when you're all alone and outnumbered and probably beaten; to spit on your hands and lower the pike; to stand fast over the body of Leonidas the King; to be rear guard at Kunu-Ri; to stand and be still to the Birkenhead Drill; these are not rational acts. They are often merely necessary. — Jerry Pournelle

I still consider myself working class. I know my circumstances have changed dramatically since I was growing up back in Birkenhead. — Paul O'Grady