Fredes Quotes & Sayings

I'd never had people drive me around, and then all of a sudden, if a car didn't come, I'd say, "Where's my car?" — Patti Smith

Because I was into like proving myself, which was one of the big things that ah, that the whole military experience sort of offers a kid at that age, um, I went to officer candidate school. Um, and I graduated as a second lieutenant at the age of nineteen. — Peter P. Mahoney

And if we even affirm that He was born of a virgin, accept this in common with what you accept of Perseus. — Justin Martyr

To Mankind
And the hope that the war against folly
may someday be won after all. — Isaac Asimov

Still, when someone who is mistreated in their home travels very far and under horrible conditions to get to yours, shouldn't you at least offer them shelter and something to eat and drink until they sort things out? It seems like common courtesy to me. — Meg Cabot

Chose you this day whom, not tomorrow, whom you'll serve? — Billy Graham

We say, "That's a very interesting idea," when we have no intention of taking the idea seriously. — Peter M. Senge

When I tell, I inform. When I ask, I transform. — Todd Stocker

Your style is who you are when you're not trying to be clever or better than you actually are. — John Currin

Considerable thought was given in early Congresses to the possibility of renaming the country. From the start, many people recognized that United States of America was unsatisfactory. For one thing, it allowed of no convenient adjectival form. A citizen would have to be either a United Statesian or some other such clumsy locution, or an American, thereby arrogating to ourselves a title that belonged equally to the inhabitants of some three dozen other nations on two continents. Several alternatives to America were actively considered -Columbia, Appalachia, Alleghania, Freedonia or Fredonia (whose denizens would be called Freeds or Fredes)- but none mustered sufficient support to displace the existing name. — Bill Bryson

Kite surfing is a great way of keeping fit. Kiting is great because you're bouncing over the waves and you're surfing the waves. I do quite long kite surfs-50 miles in a day. — Richard Branson