Iron Teeth Country Quotes & Sayings

[R]evolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning; — David Hume

Novels are just very, very, very long lies. That is to say, you've got to get your story straight! — Blair Thornburgh

"Ever since the religion of Islam appeared in the world, the espousers of it ... have been as wolves and tigers to all other nations, rending and tearing all that fell into their merciless paws, and grinding them with their iron teeth; that numberless cities are raised from the foundation, and only their name remaining; that many countries, which were once as the garden of God, are now a desolate wilderness; and that so many once numerous and powerful nations are vanished from the earth! Such was, and is at this day, the rage, the fury, the revenge, of these destroyers of human kind". — John Wesley

The city had grown, implacably, spreading its concrete and alloy fingers wider every day over the dark and feral country. Nothing could stop it. Mountains were stamped flat. Rivers were dammed off or drained or put elsewhere. The marshes were filled. The animals shot from the trees and then the trees cut down. And the big gray machines moved forward, gobbling up the jungle with their iron teeth, chewing it clean of its life and all its living things.
Until it was no more.
Leveled, smoothed as a highway is smoothed, its centuries choked beneath millions and millions of tons of hardened stone.
The birth of a city ... It had become the death of a world. — Charles Beaumont

I didn't really steal it. I just borrowed it for all eternity — Kurt Vonnegut

We cannot erase the past, but we can accept it as history. — Gary Chapman

I am happy now, to recall that I was not only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or any other pleasure, I was always with him. — John Philip Sousa

And when you realize, finally, that deeply wounded
things need loyalty more than love-

Then you will see the human race in a way as the earth has been seen
by a few from the moon. — Michael Xavier

The Grace of God and the human will are co-operant, but not on equal terms. Grace has the pre-eminence. — William Burton Pope