Certaldo Quotes & Sayings

With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community. — Gustavo Dudamel

How many of those dead animals you see on the highway are suicides? — Dennis Miller

Remember a feeling of excitement, of sudden inspiration, when I was visiting Giovanni Boccaccio's home in the walled village of Certaldo, outside of Florence. (Boccaccio was the medieval author of The Decameron.) It was as though I had met my muse! After this trip, I read The Decameron and began writing the Alchemy Series in earnest. — Mary Pope Osborne

They were American people and there was a kind of dirty, compelling romance about them whenever they were in groups - never — Stephen King

Love works magic. It is the finalpurpose of the world story, the Amen of the universe. — Novalis

We like to take credit when we get a new idea, as if we originated the idea in our brain, but what we actually did was no less extraordinary: we channeled the idea. — Chris Prentiss

I shall no longer fear what's on the roads ahead of me ... nor shall I be in despair about what I left behind. I shall live in the present moment and strive for greatness and work to brighten humanity with each step I take. — Timothy Pina

It is the press that has taken these charges and accusations and blown them up without any kind of skepticism whatsoever - blown them into realities and treated them as if they were true. — Dixie Lee Ray

I refused to even consider ordering less inventory. Grow or die, that's what I believed, no matter the situation. — Phil Knight

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson. — Elon Musk

If there is a single factor that makes spiritual direction effective as a change agency for the soul, it is this: spiritual direction holds our shame at bay long enough for us to see ourselves as God sees us in Christ. — Gary W. Moon

I'm a grandfather now. — Robert Plant

Truth is brighter than light. — Benjamin Franklin

kindnesses is the power from the heart. — Jan Jansen

It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience. If there be no penalty annexed to disobedience, the resolutions or commands which pretend to be laws will, in fact, amount to nothing more than advice or recommendation. This penalty, whatever it may be, can only be inflicted in two ways: by the agency of the Courts and Ministers of Justice, or by military force; by the coercion of the magistracy, or by the coercion of arms. The first kind can evidently apply only to men: the last kind must, of necessity, be employed against bodies politic, or communities, or States. — Alexander Hamilton