Desliza Quotes & Sayings

And now every April I sit on my porch
And I watch the parade pass before me
I see my old comrades, how proudly they march
Reliving the dreams of past glory

I see the old men all twisted and torn
The forgotten heroes of a forgotten war
And the young people ask me, "What are they marching for?"
And I ask myself the same question

And the band plays Waltzing Matilda
And the old men still answer the call
But year after year their numbers get fewer
Some day no one will march there at all — Eric Bogle

I don't fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is saying, 'Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you? — George S. Patton Jr.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it. — Bill Vaughan

You don't have to win, you already have! — Wendy Ann Zellea

We punish the body and strip the earth. And we do it in pursuit of a so-called holiness that smacks of the bogus, that denies the gifts of God, that makes us marauders on the earth. — Joan D. Chittister

Beauty ... cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact; it is not a quantity. — Wendell Berry

Unlike economics, whose sole preoccupation in our finance-obsessed era is the near-term profit motive, history offers a way to place our tiny lifespans in a narrative that spans dozens of generations - perhaps even reaching into a future where capitalism is no longer our dominant form of economic organization. — Annalee Newitz

Cheap natural gas is a big stimulus to petrochemical production and a meaningful one for all U.S. manufacturing. — Roger Altman