Gwennap Parish Council Quotes & Sayings

I used to have to think about awful things to get myself emotionally connected to something. — Hilarie Burton

When you're thirsty, it's too late to think about digging a well. — Harvey MacKay

Naturally a direct comparison of terrorist and novelist is complete nonsense. But there was once a time when the novelist also had some influence on how his contemporaries thought, the way they saw the world, the way they lived. — Don DeLillo

Sometimes my life just don't make sense at all. The mountains looks so big and my faith just seems so small. — Rich Mullins

One is a careful distinction between things which are in our power and things which are not. Desire and dislike, opinion and affection, are within the power of the will; whereas health, wealth, honour, and other such are generally not so. The Stoic was called upon to control his desires and affections, and to guide his opinion; — Marcus Aurelius

Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world. — Benjamin Rush

I spent nearly two years in a small village - perhaps seventy families. I've never worked harder or learned so much so fast in my life; as an anthropologist you are at work from when you open your eyes in the morning to when you close them at night. — James C. Scott

We have to step up as adults and try to guide our youth. — Ice Cube

There are dead girls to mourn, and living girls who will struggle for years to adjust to life outside the Garden, if they even can. He still counts this as a good day. — Dot Hutchison

Even the people who have it do not definitely know what genius is. — Mary Hunter Austin

Memory, or rather experience
which is the memory of the event plus the wound it has inflicted on you, plus the change which it has wrought in you and which has made you different
experience is the basic nutrition also for a work of literature (but not only for that), the true source of wealth for every writer (but not only for the writer), and yet the minute it gives shape to a work of literature it withers and dies. The writer, after writing, finds that he is the poorest of men. — Italo Calvino

He felt he knew now what time would be like without seasons and what heat would be like without light and what man would be like without salvation. He didn't care if he never made the train and if it had not been for what suddenly caught his attention, like a cry out of the gathering dusk, he might have forgotten there was a station to go to. — Flannery O'Connor

We recently had an extension built, to house a closet. It's like the Tardis - I go in there and never come out. — Catherine Zeta-Jones

Those who have ears to hear, will hear — Dmitri Shostakovich