Burgermaster Kirkland Quotes & Sayings

I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy. — David Souter

Why couldn't I be more like other girls my age? Take Mrs. Brown's niece. She spent every waking hour sizing up this beau or that, stitching tea towels and petticoats and putting aside a little each month for a set of Spode Buttercup dishes. — Kirby Larson

Each day should be devoted to miracles. The purpose of time is to enable you to
learn how to use time constructively.
It is thus a teaching device and a means to an end.
Time will cease when it is no longer useful in facilitating learning. — Kenneth Wapnick

The best way to maximize your time is by not wasting time. This requires planning and having an awareness of how you spend your time throughout the day. — Tasha Hoggatt

Grief," he said, "is carnivorous. It feeds whether you're awake or not, whether you fight it or you don't. Much like cancer. And one morning you wake up and all those other emotions - joy, envy, greed, even love - are swallowed by it. And you're alone with grief, naked to it. And it owns you. — Dennis Lehane

Men, to exist, to become complete and mature, need to feel the joy of fatherhood. When a man does not have this desire, something is missing in this man, it is like an incomplete life: a life that stops half way. The grace of fatherhood; of giving life to others, of pastoral paternity, of spiritual paternity is a gift from God. — Pope Francis

Humility is the great preserver of peace and order in all Christian churches and societies, consequently pride is the great disturber of them, and the cause of most dissensions and breaches in the church. — Matthew Henry

I've heard one or two riders refer to the odd night out as 'morale training'. It's a good expression for it. It's got the word 'training' in it, so it's got to be a good idea. — Michael Hutchinson

Think Jesus taught us that we have a Father who loves us more than we know, and if we could sort that out we would know how to treat each other. — Wayne Jacobsen

I have a different GOD. I see it in the smile of others. My worship to make people happy. Love is my Religion. — Vikrmn

The idea that everyone should slavishly work so they do something inefficiently so they keep their job - that just doesn't make any sense to me. That can't be the right answer. — Larry Page

I always want to know the things one shouldn't do."
"So as to do them?" asked her aunt.
"So as to choose." said Isabel — Henry James