Hodgdon Rifle Powder Quotes & Sayings

My family didn't go to church. Once when I slept over at the house of a friend, her parents brought me to Sunday school with her. I was given this little pamphlet of tiny poems about the natural world, about butterflies and sunsets. My 7-year-old self was so astounded by how these few words were creating pictures and feelings in me. — Cheryl Strayed

I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy. — Joe Lieberman

The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried ... not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it. — Willie Mays

A painful truth I'd learn later: you may be ready to grow, but you can't fertilize friends and grow them with you. — Sara Levine

I feel," he replied, "like a sweaty Englishman molesting a naked statue in the presence of a complete stranger." - Adam — Mark Mills

Nothing is more deceitful,' said Darcy, 'than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, — Jane Austen

My whole thing as a performer is to affect people, whether I make you cry or I make you laugh. I would love to make you think. — Bresha Webb

May I quickly attain complete enlightenment, and having attained the state of a buddha, may I guide all sentient beings to liberation and the awakened state itself. — Tulku Urgyen

In New York I heard A Piece of Ground, written by a white South African, Jeremy Taylor. I modified it a little and sang it myself. That song is very special to me because it deals with the land question in southern Africa. We were dispossessed of our land, — Miriam Makeba

Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart is, in my opinion, a denial of God and Religion. Conversion without cleanliness of heart can only be a matter of sorrow, not joy, to a godly person. — Mahatma Gandhi

I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better equipped to write a book on my chosen subject. — Richard Dawkins

God does not take away trials or carry us over them, but strengthens us through them. — Edward Bouverie Pusey

How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion! — Moliere