Childers Quotes & Sayings

I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop. — Sam Childers

Some people are too good to be real; I'm too real to be good. — Mary Childers

Dale's father edited an English-language newspaper in Bombay and Dale always shouted "Aiee!" when he was in pain. It had amazed me greatly when I first heard him stubbing his toe against the foot of the bed in the dormitory, since I had never imagined that expressions of pain could vary. I had thought "Ouch!" and "Ow!" were the same all over the world. I had suffered a hot and bothered exchange in my first French lesson, for example, when I was told that the French for "Oh!" was "Ah!"
"Then how do they say 'Oh,' sir?"
"They say 'Ah.'"
"Well then, how do they say 'Ah'?"
"Don't be stupid, Fry."
I had sulked for the rest of the lesson. — Stephen Fry

He walked like a man half in his cups. — George R R Martin

In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war. — Horace

As much wrong as I did in life and as many people as I hurt, I can say that God never stopped talking to me. I just stopped listening. — Sam Childers

I started out doing something little. I went to Africa to spend five weeks putting roofs on a building. I seen the small child that stepped on a land mine. Three months later, I'm back helping pull the land mines out. Little things just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger. — Sam Childers

I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan. — Sam Childers

Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city. — Sam Childers

You want to know why I am giving you a choice, Gabriel? I'll tell you why. There is a core inside of you that has never been touched, not by me, not by Michael, not by Mademoiselle Childers. I want to see what it will take to break into that core. I want to see it now. — Robin Schone

I don't like to consider myself a normal preacher. When you look at religious people, they're the ones who hung Christ from the cross. I look at myself as a man carrying a message of hope. — Sam Childers

Perhaps the good Samaritan was lean and lank, and found it hard to live. Who knows! — Charles Dickens

No one likes the house next door to look worse or a lot better than his own. — Andy Rooney

Talent shuffles the deck. Genius brings a new deck. — Mason Cooley

Situations emerge in the process of creative destruction in which many firms may have to perish that nevertheless would be able to live on vigorously and usefully if they could weather a particular storm. — Joseph A. Schumpeter

Stem cell therapy has the potential to treat a multitude of diseases and illnesses, which up until now have been labelled 'incurable.' — Peter Jackson

All my life, from birth, it's been a fight. And it always seemed to be another man's war. I always seemed to be fighting for someone else. But it always came back to me. The Word says we're born into sin, and sin always comes back to war. — Sam Childers

If you like what Wall Street did for the housing market, you'll love what Wall Street is doing for commodities, Goldman's ability to influence any portion of the price for a key component of the industrial economy is simply unacceptable. — Carl Levin

You can be the ugliest man in the world but once you got money, you can have all the women in the world. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Take a step or two forward, lads. It will be easier that way. — Erskine Childers

Because adventure starts the moment I leave my door. — Gloria Steinem

Since that day there is nothing anyone could ever say to convince me that one person cannot change a nation. One person can do unbelievable things. All it takes is that one person who's willing to risk everything to make it happen. — Sam Childers

I had always detested the meddlesome alarmist, who veils ignorance under noisiness, and for ever wails his chant of lugubrious pessimism. — Erskine Childers

I should have died in ambushes a hundred times. — Sam Childers

So this is the boom, eh?" I said. "Not exactly Scott Fitzgerald, is it?" "I'll tell you what it's like," he said glumly. "It's like being in Caligula's Rome, and everyone around you's having an orgy, and you're the mug stuck looking after the horse." He pulled heavily on his cigarette. "The whole thing'll come crashing down," he said bleakly, "and all anyone'll have done is eaten a lot of expensive cheese. — Paul Murray

Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived. — Dean Karnazes

Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head. — Sam Childers

For me to sit here and give all kinds of excuses to make it right, I can't do. But what I want to ask everyone out there, everyone that has a child, everyone that has a brother, a sister: if your child or family member was abducted today, if a mad man came in, a terrorist came in, abducted your family member or your child and if I said to you I can bring your child home ... does it matter how I bring them home? — Sam Childers

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy. — James Broughton