Jungreisz Quotes & Sayings

Although it is no longer customary to offer visitors a straw through which to drink from a communal vat of beer, today tea or coffee may be offered from a shared pot, or a glass of wine or spirits from a shared bottle. And when drinking alcohol in a social setting, the clinking of glasses symbolically reunites the glasses into a single vessel of shared liquid. These are traditions with very ancient origins. — Tom Standage

I am one of those old-fashioned ministers who believe the whole Bible and everything that it contains. — J.C. Ryle

Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen. — Henry Miller

Some players need a boot up their backside. Other players need the arm — Alan Brazil

The truth is, when our mothers held us, rocked us, stroked our heads -none of us ever got enough of that. We all yearn in some way to return to those days when we were completely taken care of - unconditional love, unconditional attention. Most of us didn't get enough. — Mitch Albom

If we greet situations with a positive attitude, we will eventually create positive returns. If we respond with a negative attitude, negative things will eventually come our way. — Tenzin Palmo

And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society. — Walter Dean Myers

I remember thinking that I could disguise the way I am by somehow filtering my expression for the sake of juvenile social acceptance or I could say to the world, "Here I am, if you don't like it, don't clap."
-Boys of the Fatherless- — David C. Riggins

Most of us have participated in the trust exercise in which one person falls back and is caught by a peer. Even if the catch is made a hundred times in a row, the trust is broken forever if the friend lets you fall the next time as a joke. Even if he swears he is sorry and will never let you fall again, you can never fall back without a seed of doubt. — Rafe Esquith

There have always been card schools at football clubs and always will be. — Peter Shilton

The two most wonderful things in life are money and sex, but the minute you start discussing them, they become b-o-r-i-n-g. — Rosamunde Pilcher