Graceland Briggs Quotes & Sayings

When the peace of God follows the purity of God's wisdom into our hearts and lives, it will affect those around us. — David Jeremiah

You only have to glance at the daily news to see how passions are stirred by claims of exclusive loyalty to one's own kin, one's own clan, one's own country, and one's own church. These ties that bind are vital to our communities and our lives, but they can also be twisted into a noose. — Bill Moyers

Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen. — Johan Cruyff

You're the reason why I'm fighting here. You're the meaning of my life. And as long as you need me, I keep alive. — Hotaru Odagiri

Girls want to be with guys who have a sense of humor-it makes them far more attractive to us. — Drew Barrymore

Billy had a framed prayer on his office wall which expressed his method for keeping going, even though he was unenthusiastic about living. A lot of patients who saw the prayer on Billy's wall told him that it helped them to keep going, too. It went like this: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference." Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future. — Kurt Vonnegut

It Takes a Network to Defeat a Network." With that, we took the first step toward an entirely new conversation. — Stanley McChrystal

I don't think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is a distraction and that going to a movie is a way to get back, not go away. — Tom Noonan

A nation that will keep people in slavery for 244 years will "thingify" them and make them things. And therefore, they will exploit them and poor people generally economically. And a nation that will exploit economically will have to have foreign investments and everything else, and it will have to use its military might to protect them. All of these problems are tied together. What I'm saying today is that we must go from this convention and say, "America, you must be born again!" — Martin Luther King Jr.

Buster Keaton is my hero. — French Stewart

Today's science is tomorrow's technology. — Edward Teller

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time. — Carlos Santana

My mother had morning sickness after I was born. — Rodney Dangerfield