Derrubado Quotes & Sayings

We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's hands, but we were all artists, I suppose, really. But I was the first one who had the urge to express myself on paper rather than at the coalface. — Alan Bennett

I hold that he who teaches that not reason but love should rule opens up the way for those who rule by hate. — Karl R. Popper

My faith is certainly not as stable or constant as I'd like it to be. I'm a highly emotional person and sometimes allow my emotions to affect how I feel about God or how I trust him. — Anne Jackson

Democrats always were a cheap lot. They never had much money to operate on ... They would rather make a speech than a dollar. They cultivate their voice instead of their finances. — Will Rogers

Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life. — Robin Hayes

I've got The Father on my side, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit and
2/3 of the angels. What do you think I'm going to do? Sit down
and cry? — Leonard Ravenhill

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about. — Winston S. Churchill

The result justifies the deed. — Ovid

Sleep: the moon still hasn't moved the width of a constellation since you were a girl. Since you have become a woman, the stars that stand above the halls of Palladios have not yet disappeared behind the domes of San Marco. But only since then has the world become the world. — Alexander Lernet-Holenia

And because without objects there can be no subject-- because the objects create the subject's awareness of himself-- quality is the event at which awareness of both subjects and objects is made possible. — Robert Pirsig