Catholicon Band Quotes & Sayings

By the year 2020 the largest employer in the developed world will be the self. — Nicholas Negroponte

I don't want to be considered a hero ... Imagine [if] young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary. — Miep Gies

Small things start us in new ways of thinking — V.S. Naipaul

With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of snow, this song of the huskies might have been the defiance of life, only it was pitched in minor key, with long-drawn wailings and half-sobs, and was more the pleading of life, the articulate travail of existence. It was an old song, old as the breed itself - one of the first songs of the younger world in a day when songs were sad. It was invested with the woe of unnumbered generations, this plaint by which Buck was so strangely stirred. When he moaned and sobbed, it was with the pain of living that was of old the pain of his wild fathers, and the fear and mystery of the cold and dark that was to them fear and mystery. — Jack London

Are you still forgetting things?" "I don't know, I can't remember," I said. — Stephen King

So it was that Dantes, during the Hundred Days and after Waterloo, remained under lock and key, forgotten, if not by men, at least by God. — Alexandre Dumas

On a morning like this, fear is a blue sky emptied of birds. — Fran Wilde

A righteous wife can make a poor man feel like a king. — Boonaa Mohammed

A healthy body is a platform for flourishing a healthy mind. — Pawan Mishra

Now, I can understand why the appearance of a man struggling violently, as it would seem, with an airy nothing, and calling for assistance against a vision, should have appeared ludicrous. Then, so great was my rage against the mocking crowd that had I the power I would have stricken them dead where they stood. — Fitz-James O'Brien