Jazzbones Quotes & Sayings

You must realize ... that the men of the Valley have built their houses and brought up their families without help from others, without a word from the Government. Their lives have been ordered from birth by the Bible. From it they took their instructions. They had no other guidance, and no other law. If it has produced hypocrites and pharisees, the fault is in the human race. We are not all angels. Our fathers upheld good conduct and rightful dealing by strictness, but it is in Man Adam to be slippery, and many are as slimy as the adder. The wonder is to me that the men of the Valley are as they are, and not barbarians at all.I was sorry for Meillyn Lewis, too. But that session of the deacons was helpful as a preventative. It was cruel, but it is more cruel to allow misconduct to flourish without check. — Richard Llewellyn

I was born the day I got my license. When I was a kid, if I wanted to go somewhere and see things, you have to get in your car and actually go. — Jay Leno

But if man is free to define for himself the conditions of a life which is valid in his own eyes, can he not choose whatever he likes and act however he likes? Dostoievsky asserted, "If God does not exist, everything is permitted." Today's believers use this formula for their own advantage. To re-establish man at the heart of his destiny is, they claim, to repudiate all ethics. However, far from God's absence authorizing all license, the contrary is the case, because man is abandoned on the earth, because his acts are definitive, absolute engagements. He bears the responsibility for a world which is not the work of a strange power, but of himself, where his defeats are inscribed, and his victories as well. — Simone De Beauvoir

Obviously, signing on with Puma right when I turned pro, it's been a great fit for me to show off my colorful lifestyle as far as where I grew up and how I grew up, growing up on a public driving range and growing up around action sports my whole life. Not exactly the normal road that guys take to get to the PGA Tour. — Rickie Fowler

The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed. — V.S. Pritchett

It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a radical conflict of black against white or as a purely American problem. Rather, we are today seeing a global rebellion of the oppressed against the oppressor, the exploited against the exploiter. — Malcolm X

He looks like a starving man, like he could devour me all at once. "That swimsuit," he begins. "Is small," I conclude. — Nicola Yoon

There's something really beautiful about science, that human beings can ask these questions and can answer them. You can make models of nature and understand how it works. — Margaret Geller

My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy. — Carol Ann Duffy

Success is the ability to move from one failure to another without losing enthusiasm" Winston Churchill — Amit Eshet

No creature, large or small, ever fails to cover the ground upon which it stands. — John Daido Loori

Me + You + Tree = Anytime - Caleb Hudson — J. Haney