Irish Farmers Quotes & Sayings

Don't seek to be respected by everyone, rather seek to be worthy of being respected by everyone. — Bohdi Sanders

We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat. — Sonny Bono

God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they've really messed up ... not the last. — Tullian Tchividjian

In the beginning, some people try to appear that everything about them is "in black and white," until later their true colors come out. — Anthony Liccione

Thus, in that inevitable taking of sides which comes from selection and emphasis in history, I prefer to try to tell the story of the discovery of America from the viewpoint of the Arawaks, of the Constitution from the standpoint of the slaves, of Andrew Jackson as seen by the Cherokees, of the Civil War as seen by the New York Irish, of the Mexican war as seen by the deserting soldiers of Scott's army, of the rise of industrialism as seen by the young women in the Lowell textile mills, of the Spanish-American war as seen by the Cubans, the conquest of the Philippines as seen by black soldiers on Luzon, the Gilded Age as seen by southern farmers, the First World War as seen by socialists, the Second World War as seen by pacifists, the New Deal as seen by blacks in Harlem, the postwar American empire as seen by peons in Latin America. And so on, to the limited extent that any one person, however he or she strains, can "see" history from the standpoint of others. — Howard Zinn

Liberal dominance of important areas of America's social and political life has undermined many of the virtues that have sustained this country. — Mona Charen

He wondered often how he would ever recognize the first chill, flush, twinge, ache, belch, sneeze, stain, lethargy, vocal slip, loss of balance or lapse of memory that would signal the inevitable beginning of the inevitable end. — Joseph Heller