Famous Lubbock Quotes & Sayings

I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement. — Maggie Gallagher

It is far easier to take a blow to the cheek than a blow to one's pride. Broken bones can heal, but a broken mirror must be replaced. — Luke Taylor

My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus. — Herbie Mann

Well, Hilda and I were married, and right from the start it was a flop. Why did you marry her? you say. Why did you marry yours? These things happen to us. I wonder whether you'll believe that during the first two or three years I had serious thoughts of killing Hilda. Of course in practice one never does these things, they're only a kind of fantasy one enjoys thinking about. Besides, chaps who murder their wives always get copped. However cleverly you've faked the alibi, they know perfectly well that it's you who did it, and they'll pin it onto you somehow.
When a woman's bumped off, her husband is always the first suspect -which gives you a little side glimpse of what people really think about marriage. — George Orwell

It's hard to stop people comparing their world with the world they imagine you to have. — Carla H. Krueger

Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs. — Edmond De Goncourt

These are matters of external history. They are indeed prominent objects, often changing and giving a new direction to the current; but they tell us not why it flows onward and will ever flow. — Jones Very

The privilege against self-incrimination is one of the great landmarks in man's struggle to make himself civilized ... The Fifth is a lone sure rock in time of storm ... a symbol of the ultimate moral sense of the community, upholding the best in us. — Erwin Griswold

I reserve my emotional energy exclusively for people. Things can be fixed. Things can be replaced. People cannot. — Alan C. Fox

I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled. — Connie Stevens

Their eyes met. It had begun. They had begun. — Alexandra Potter