Harrisonville Quotes & Sayings

EGAD was a coffeehouse, built for the kids of Harrisonville by a middle-aged Jesus Freak. Its letters meant "Everybody Give A Damn! — Joe Eszterhas

The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility. — William Thomas Green Morton

Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street. — Joe Eszterhas

I've come to understand that "why?" is the wrong question. It's usually where we start our journey, but it never takes us to any destination. We must find the courage to move away from that place of demanding an explanation from God and take the next step, the one of simple trust: Lord, what do You want to show me? — Cathee A. Poulsen

The reason Christians get married "before the church" is not to give a religious appearance to the ceremony but because Christians hold the marriage covenant in the context of the community of the body of Christ. Seeking the support and counsel of family is an extension of this. — Matt Chandler

Over time, though, the small changes add up. Sometimes they even transform cities and nations, and yes, the world. — Katie J. Davis

I think it's important that people know who you are and ... can ask any questions they like about you. — Gordon Brown

Mom is a compulsive reader. She reads for pleasure, she reads to edify herself, but more often than not, she reads because she can't help it. I understand. The minute I find myself sitting still, I start rummaging around for printed material.
p 97 — Michael Perry

The idea that bigger haystacks have more needles in them is dumb on its face — Cory Doctorow

Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers. — Charles Caleb Colton

To build peace is difficult but to live without it is torment. — Pope Francis

I don't want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble. — Don DeLillo

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. — Walter Bagehot

For myself, I warmly thank the Nobel Foundation and the Committee for Chemistry for this mark of their approbation and for an award which confers the highest distinction that a scientist can achieve. I am greatly beholden also to my sponsors and supporters. — Robert Robinson

Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often. — Patricia Marx

They were liberating Harrisonville, showing the hypocrites and phonies and $$$-squirrelers and chokeragged Yesmen some puffed-up balls. They were widening the mental horizons of a town more narrow-minded than its streets; they were missionaries laboring amon their bloodkin: montheytheistic theocentric cousins and uncles who swore allegiance to Uncle Sam, Jim Crow, Oral Roberts, and Dale Carnegie; they were waging their impudent revolution against people they'd cowedly called "sir" all their teenage lives. — Joe Eszterhas

Where could you go in Harrisonville?-this smalltime place haunted by by homilies, platitudes, and booshwah. — Joe Eszterhas

Homeopathy - an invention of the Father of Lies! I have tried it and found it wanting. I would swallow their whole doles' medicine chest for sixpence, and be sure of finding myself neither better nor worse for it. — Jane Welsh Carlyle

We shall at all times chance upon men of recondite acquirements, but whose qualifications, from the incommunicative and inactive habits of their owners, are as utterly useless to others as though the possessors had them not. — Charles Caleb Colton