Countrymen Band Quotes & Sayings

Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.' — Robert Kennedy

People who read mainly the Grounding and the Critique often criticize Kant for having his head in the clouds and for not being convincingly capable of dealing with concrete cases. A reading of the Metaphysics of Morals will show anyone how unfounded such criticisms are. — Immanuel Kant

If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbour? A comfortable career of prosperity, if it does not make people honest, at least keeps them so. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking. — Friedrich Nietzsche

What he realised, and more clearly as time went on, was that money-worship has been elevated into a religion. Perhaps it is the only real religion-the only felt religion-that is left to us. Money is what God used to be. Good and evil have no meaning any longer except failure and success. Hence the profoundly significant phrase, to make good. The decalogue has been reduced to two commandments. One for the employers-the elect, the money priesthood as it were- 'Thou shalt make money'; the other for the employed- the slaves and underlings'- 'Thou shalt not lose thy job.' It was about this time that he came across The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and read about the starving carpenter who pawns everything but sticks to his aspidistra. The aspidistra became a sort of symbol for Gordon after that. The aspidistra, the flower of England! It ought to be on our coat of arms instead of the lion and the unicorn. There will be no revolution in England while there are aspidistras in the windows. — George Orwell

Children are the future of a nation. If the children are intelligent, the country will be prosperous.

Thai proverb — Elaine Russell

Your eyes is camera and your brain is a file cabinet. — George Balanchine

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. — Mae West

So we grapple with the mysteries, each in our own way. And some of us get to float around on one of them and call it home. — Jandy Nelson