Bredeson Michigan Quotes & Sayings

I can only hope that whatever image people might have of either me or Bill, they will hold in advanced until they have an opportunity to meet us. — Hillary Clinton

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. — Henry David Thoreau

She recalled her father saying to her, 'My dear Anna, do not forget that a friend who is not willing to risk his very friendship for a friend is perhaps not such a good friend as he thinks he is. — Judith Pella

It was possible at last to hear the silence to appreciate that there was a silence, deep and potent, out there beyond the pretension of the light. — Robert Charles Wilson

Many of their own wolves were turning upon them and rending the dead and the wounded. — J.R.R. Tolkien

If you're not used to compliments, they can really mess you up for a minute. — Louise Rozett

So dear to heaven is saintly chastity,
That when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liveried angels lackey her,
Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt,
And in clear dream, and solemn vision
Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear,
Till oft converse with heavenly habitants
Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape,
The unpolluted temple of the mind,
And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence,
Till all be made immortal — John Milton

Under weak government, in a wide, thinly populated country, in the struggle against the raw natural environment and with the freeplay of economic forces, unified social groups become the transmitters of culture. — Johan Huizinga

Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education. — Henry Charles Carey

First is our unbreakable rule that every candidate must be a trained trooper, blooded under fire, a veteran of combat drops. No other army in history has stuck to this rule, although some came close. Most great military schools of the past - Saint Cyr, West Point, Sandhurst, Colorado Springs - didn't even pretend to follow it; they accepted civilian boys, trained them, commissioned them, sent them out with no battle experience to command men . . . and sometimes discovered too late that this smart young 'officer' was a fool, a poltroon, or a hysteric. — Robert A. Heinlein

I have always liked what the Scarecrow said to Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz.
"Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't they? — Paul Howard

My dad was president of the volunteer fire department, which was within walking distance to our house. I spent several days of each week there with him - any time the whistle blew, he went. It was truly inspiring to watch him lead that way. — Brad Paisley

The Dream is the city, and if we find it's heart in the Dream, then we find it's heart in the world. — Alexis Hall

But does he see everything, or only what he wants to be seeing? This is always one of the great questions of love. — David Levithan