Essendon Country Quotes & Sayings

I think I was born stubborn, that's all, — Patricia Neal

I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any thing, no matter what, to get rid of thinking! It was this everlasting thinking of my condition that tormented me. There was no getting rid of it. It was pressed upon me by every object within sight or hearing, animate or inanimate. — Frederick Douglass

The poor yield to the rich, the common people to the upper ten, the servants to their masters, the ignorant to the scholars; but there is nobody who does not imagine that he is really better than others. — John Calvin

Making those CDs, signing them, numbering them, packing them. It takes hundreds of hours, but it's worth it because I'm able to do the thing I love. — Michael Gira

We have come to a stream of blood. That it will lead us to a river of the same stuff I have no doubt. And, further along, to an ocean. In this world the graves yawn and none of the dead rest easy. — Stephen King

History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I need to stop carving out four-hour chunks to do random things and go home and watch my children grow up. — Neil Patrick Harris

Basically there are two types of animals: animals, and animals that have no brains; they are called plants. They don't need a nervous system because they don't move actively, they don't pull up their roots and run in a forest fire! Anything that moves actively requires a nervous system; otherwise it would come to a quick death. — Rodolfo Llinas

Theology is a science of mind applied to God. — Henry Ward Beecher

becoming a leader requires each of us to 'create changes we believe in'. — Eamonn O'Brien

... since the history of words is a mainspring of our intellectual and emotional character. — Cirilo F. Bautista

I wonder which one of us is more despicable.Is it the person relentlessly chasing after love or the person desperately holding it captive? We wrapped each other in vines of thorns so that we could watch each other's heart bleed to the last drop, only there can be no end for creatures of eternal darkness. How much longer must you watch me bleed? — Dahlia Lu