Houston Alamo Quotes & Sayings

She came out here ... turned this way, must have trod on these stones often. Let me follow in her steps. — Charles Dickens

I kind of understood at a young age that I didn't play well with most other kids in the sandbox. — Chris Bohjalian

Democracy is a continuous, open process of civility.
A democracy can never be "done"; updating democracy can never be over.

Democracy can be nothing else but a continuous process, because we use it to organize our life, and life is nothing but a continuous process.

Democracy can be compared to an operating system or an anti-virus software; if it does not get perpetually updated, it becomes obsolete very fast.

Trusting the updates or the "improvements" of democracy to the elected and the owned mass media is like trusting the updates of an anti-virus program to virus creators; it defeats the purpose of updates or improvements. — Haroutioun Bochnakian

To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we don't deal with the causes we will never be safe. — Peter Yarrow

We mask our needs as the needs of others. — Terry Tempest Williams

Another angel has snuck up on me. His wings are golden and his face chiseled, but he looks at me with the cold eyes of a killer. Before I can figure out what to do, snowy wings blot out the angel. It's Raffe. And he has two of his Watchers backing him up. — Susan Ee

Botany, the science of the vegetable kingdom, is one of the most attractive, most useful, and most extensive departments of human knowledge. It is, above every other, the science of beauty. — Joseph Paxton

Remember the Alamo" was the battle cry that led Sam Houston's troops to victory at the Battle of San Jacinto six weeks later - and Americans have never forgotten the sacrifices made there. — Bill O'Reilly

'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you. — Oswald Chambers