Edgcumbe Staley Quotes & Sayings

John Oman warns, unless the pulpit is the place where you are the humblest in giving God's message, it is certain to be the place where you are vainest in giving your own. — Alexander Strauch

Well, I'm a standing on a cornerIn Winslow, ArizonaAnd such a fine sight to see,It's a girl, my lord, in a flatbed FordSlowin' down to have a look at me. — Jackson Browne

It was Friday, July 24, 1992, when I stepped on the train. Every year I think of it. I see it as my real birthday: the birth of me as a person, making decisions about my life on my own. I was not running away from Islam, or to democracy. I didn't have any big ideas then. I was just a young girl and wanted some way to be me; so I bolted into the unknown. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

He worked up his old battles and tricked them out with fresh splendors; also with new terrors, for he added artillery now. — Mark Twain

A school prayer amendment would confer upon public school boards a power the First Amendment now denies to Congress and the states, that is, the power to establish religion. — Sam Ervin

Fantasy has a better chance of lasting than a lot of other things. The Hobbit and the Narnia books, they seem to get handed down father to son, mother to daughter. Because they're set in a fantasy world, they can remain relevant. — Stephen King

If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them; and think it not enough to be liberal, but munificent. — Thomas Browne

At beyond continent of reality,
there are oceans of ideas. — Toba Beta

I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it. — Edgar Winter

Capablanca's play produced and still produces an irresistable artistic effect. In his games a tendency towards simplicity predominated, and in this simplicity there was a unique beauty of genuine depth. — Mikhail Botvinnik

In many inner cities, there are issues of less economic stability, poorer education, community centers being stripped away, arts being removed from the school system leaving many children imbalanced, isolated from their most powerful self ... the independent thinker, the creator, the dreamer often leaving children more susceptible to other harmful things out of boredom or feelings of rejection. — Mya

Arriving at an acceptance of one's mortality is a process, not an epiphany. — Atul Gawande

Most of the time I meet my trainer at the gym and we do a lot of everything: weights circuit with cardio, football drills, sprinting with weights on the treadmill. — Charisma Carpenter