Gumming Coke Quotes & Sayings

No, no, I will not live among the wild scenes of nature, the enemy of all that lives. I will seek the towns - Rome, the capital of the world, the crown of man's achievements. Among its storied streets, hallowed ruins, and stupendous remains of human exertion, I shall not, as here, find every thing forgetful of man; trampling on his memory, defacing his works, proclaiming from hill to hill, and vale to vale, - by the torrents freed from the boundaries which he imposed - by the vegetation liberated from the laws which he enforced - by his habitation abandoned to mildew and weeds, that his power is lost, his race annihilated for ever. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

When revelation comes write it down. — Richard G. Scott

I like making fun of myself; I don't want to make fun of other people, so I don't mind doing something out of character that some people might not expect me to do. — Eli Manning

I go to my Room and I drink and I smoke some cigarettes and I think about her. I drink and I smoke and I think about her and at a certain point blackness comes and my memory fails me. — James Frey

Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures — John Ruskin

Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice. — Hanoi Hannah

Of publishing a book on religion, my dear sir, I never had an idea. I should as soon think of writing for the reformation of Bedlam, as of the world of religious sects. Of these there must be, at least, ten thousand, every individual of every one of which believes all wrong but his own. — Thomas Jefferson

If people give up their attachment to expansive government, they will feel free to fight the income tax. — Sheldon Richman

You would not think any duty small, If you yourself were great. — George MacDonald

Remember play the games, and don't let on that you know... mourn me even if you still feel me. — Nicole Tetterton

I'm not an activist. — Robbie Robertson

Wow! gasped Julia. They saw 20 or more young children of every sort lying
on the cold, bare ground. — Magda M. Olchawska