Cudneys Funeral Home Quotes & Sayings

For the rest, all that rises out of the sea of arithmetic is a jungle of dates, battles, exports, imports and the like, forgotten as soon as learned and perfectly useless had they been remembered. — C.S. Lewis

Cement doesn't give as much as snow. — Shaun White

Strictly speaking, there are no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity. — Shunryu Suzuki

He had the singular ability to knock down her carefully bricked defenses, which was a compliment to them both and the secret to their love. — Eleanor Brown

We old roosters must be cautious. Don't try to outwit your arteries. — S.J Perelman

In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants. — John Boyd Orr

Our shame seems to come from what we do with the negative messages, negative affirmations, beliefs and rules that we hear as we grow up. We hear these from our parents, parent figures and other people in authority, such as teachers and clergy. These messages basically tell us that we are somehow not all right, not okay. That our feelings, our needs, our True Self, our Child Within is not acceptable. — Charles L. Whitfield

We ourselves, though we're guilty of every sin, are not just a work of God: we're image. Yet we have cut ourselves off from our Creator in both soul and body. Did we get eyes to serve lust, the tongue to speak evil, ears to hear evil, a throat for gluttony, a stomach to be gluttony's ally, hands to do violence, genitals for unchaste excesses, feet for an erring life? Was the soul put in the body to think up traps, fraud, and injustice? I don't think so. — Tertullian

Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves. They never get around to being the particular poet or the particular monk they are intended to be by God. They never become the man or the artist who is called for by all the circumstances of their individual lives. They waste their years in vain efforts to be some other poet, some other saint ... They wear out their minds and bodies in a hopeless endeavor to have somebody else's experiences or write somebody else's poems. — Thomas Merton

Yet moaning and wailing was not my way. I had never complained, for who cares for complaints? If something is wrong, one does something. — Louis L'Amour

Examples, not educators, educate the best. — Garry Fitchett

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country. — Juan Goytisolo

Unreasonable is very relative. — Lakshmi Pratury

The advent of militant atheism marks a reaction - a lurid but natural reaction - to the violence of the Islamic world. — David Berlinski