Fehrs Corner Quotes & Sayings

Few children learn to love books by themselves. Someone has to lure them into the wonderful written word; someone has to lead the way. — Orville Prescott

The waves smash against rocks, boulder thunders upon bolder. Granite men grind one another, leaving their clean sand to floor the ocean.
The alternative would be for the republic to breed up a race of men who could work together without growing violent: men more interested in getting somewhere than having their own way.
Haniel Long: Homestead 1892: Pittsburgh Memoranda. — Haniel Long

Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary. — Friedrich Ebert

Very few people understand that swords aren't dangerous, Tavi, nor hands nor arms, nor furies. Minds are dangerous. Wills are dangerous. You are heavily armed with both. — Jim Butcher

My coach told me if I broke the national record for the 200, I could run a 100. — Usain Bolt

Human passions unbridled by morality and religion ... would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. — John Adams

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment — Jane Austen

I'm dead. I can't be all right any more than I can be not all right. — Kendare Blake