Lisenby Elementary Quotes & Sayings

Government exists to protect the product of men's labor, their property, and therewith life and liberty. The notion that man possesses inalienable natural rights, that they belong to him as an individual prior, both in time and in sanctity, to any civil society, and that civil societies exist for and acquire their legitimacy from ensuring those rights, is an invention of modern philosophy. Rights, like the other terms discussed in this chapter, are new in modernity, not a part of the common-sense language of politics or of classical political philosophy." from "Closing of the American Mind" by Allan Bloom, Saul Bellow, Andrew Ferguson — Allan Bloom

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition. — Katarina Witt

Things that matter in the morning somehow don't matter in the afternoon. — Walter Dean Myers

Dear God in Heaven, I've been a good woman. When I die, all I want is Humphrey Bogart and Matt Damon feeding me grapes, all day long. — Kelly Harms

There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing. — Karel Reisz

That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame. — Robert Southey

Within the context of Western music, jazz has always contained certain radical or revolutionary aspects. These are: improvisation, collective composition and individuality or the personal sound (based on amazing variations in sonority, timbre and pitch). — Michael Snow

A baby isn't meant to stay a baby forever, and neither is a new Christian. — Billy Graham

I'll destroy the ephemeral. — Diego

A man's worth isn't in how many women he's had. It's in how he loves the right one. — Sophie Oak