Garridon Quotes & Sayings

Deep thoughts about the universe mean nothing if you keep putting yourself in the centre of it. — Vito Michienzi

Finally I'm becoming stupider no more. — Paul Erdos

Don't stop til you get to the top. And then break out the sledge hammer and keep on going — Juliet C. Obodo

Monopolizing the right to speak authoritatively about "security" in name of everyone - the ability to evoke the "national interest" or a universal "we" - is at the crux of the practice of power. — Gearoid O Tuathail

Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible. — Robert Fitzgerald

Heroes do not dwell in a time of peace; heroes are hardened in a kiln against the sorrows. Their troubles sharpen the blade and make it gleaming. The glint becomes a brightness that is raised high on a hill, allowing women and men to see beyond themselves. For light swallows darkness. Truth buries death. Heroes are not born. They are filled by Music. — David Paul Kirkpatrick

As a youngster I worked the river boats going down the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, pushing barges to Chicago, then all the way down to New Orleans. — Clint Walker