Burgh Quotes & Sayings

I did jazz dance for a few years. — Sharon Van Etten

I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal. — Cameron Van Der Burgh

Does your mother know that you're carrying a gun? I'm going to tell her. I'm going to call and tell her right now.
She sent me a look of utter disgust and slammed the front door. I was 30-year-old and Mrs Morelli was going to tell my mother on me. Only in the burgh. — Janet Evanovich

raconteur quality, but then why should she? — Annette De Burgh

My dream was always to win in the Olympic Games, but I never set that next goal, and I have realised now I need to set another goal. — Cameron Van Der Burgh

He lived in a giant skycastle with lots of toys and many — Breaking Burgh

The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will dignify and elevate science while it is sundered so wholly from the moral life of its devotee. — Henry David Thoreau

There is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people. — James Burgh

There is an answer, some day we will know
And you will ask her, why she had to go
We live and die, we laugh and we cry
You must take away the pain
Before you can begin to live again — Chris De Burgh

In disputes upon moral or scientific points, ever let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So you never shall be at a loss in losing the argument, and gaining a new discovery. — James Burgh

If you have a friend that will reprove your faults and foibles, consider you enjoy a blessing which the king upon the throne cannot have. — James Burgh

Whatever happiness and peace that one knows in one's life is generally so fragile that it is always subservient to the external situation. So most of your lives go in trying to manage a perfect external situation which is just impossible to do. No human being is ever capable of creating a perfect external situation because the outside situation will never be hundred percent in your control, no matter how powerful a human being you are. So yoga focuses on the inner situation. If you can create a perfect inward situation, no matter what the external situation, you can be in perfect bliss and peace. — Jaggi Vasudev

Men of all lands and climes are brothers. — Joseph Hertz

I'm trying to focus on the 100 and 200 breaststroke now. There's no point concentrating on the 50 when it's not in the Olympics. I'm not going to quit the 50 but it's not my priority any more. I'll do it but as part of my bid for gold at the other distances. — Cameron Van Der Burgh

The pink tips were pure punk, but the bleach blond roots were positively Malfoy-esque. — Cookie O'Gorman

Early in 1203 John sent instructions to the royal servant Hubert de Burgh, who was serving as Arthur's jailer, demanding that he should blind and castrate his prisoner. Fortunately for Arthur, de Burgh felt a pang of conscience and could not carry out the grisly sentence on the sixteen-year-old, who pleaded for pity. — Dan Jones

If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches. — James Burgh

Yesterday for contemplation, today for action. — James Burgh

All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people. — James Burgh

No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion. — James Burgh

I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin. — Cameron Van Der Burgh

I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best. — Cameron Van Der Burgh

The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. — James Burgh

I guess you always regret the choices you didn't make, because you imagine that they would have been better choices, that's the thing. But in the end, you just have to choose something and get on with it. Because if you hedge your bets forever, well, you end up with nothing, don't you? — Nick Alexander

Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past. — Kate Forsyth

If a favour is asked of you, grant it if you can. If not, refuse it in such a manner as that one denial may be sufficient. — James Burgh

I, Anna Maria de Burgh Coppinger Isis solemnly swear on — Ben Aaronovitch

In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one. — James Burgh

Being the first to do anything takes guts. — J.M. Darhower

What damn fool punches his own horse? — Tom Franklin

I'm inspired to write songs in many different ways - it can come from a melody, a word or phrase or something I have seen on my travels around the world. It's one of the great bonuses of my job in that I get to meet so many people and experience different cultures and it would be hard not to be inspired. — Chris De Burgh

Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once. — Cameron Van Der Burgh

But like they say, it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years. And I sure as hell was going to make my life count. — Jay McLean

It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press. — Cameron Van Der Burgh