Longfathers Quotes & Sayings

Teach people to be successful in everything they do — Sunday Adelaja

The more you frame the marathon as a stressful experience, the more negative messages you'll receive. But it's just as easy to frame it as a positively challenging journey. — Jeff Galloway

Personally, I tend to be more interested in security and performance-related issues than other things. — Rasmus Lerdorf

Education is a task for both parents and state. The state, parents, and children all have interests that must be protected. — John Goodlad

You just pick your head up and stare at something beautiful like the sky,
or the ocean and you move the hell on. — James Patterson

I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it's something fantastic. They're willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they want fantasy. — Cindy Sherman

President John F. Kennedy's Cigars
On February 7, 1962, President Kennedy announced to his staff that he needed some help finding as many of the prestigious Cuban Petit Upmann cigars as possible. He let it be known that he would like to have 1,000 of these cigars by the next morning. Being the President of the United States, his wish was granted when, on the morning of February 8th, his Press Secretary Pierre Salinger came in and deposited 1,200 cigars on Kennedy's desk. Smiling, Kennedy opened his desk, took out a document and signed it, banning importation of all Cuban-made products into the United States. Some years later when asked about that moment, Salinger said that there were actually 1,201 cigars. — Hank Bracker

As I live, breathe, and defecate! — Neil Gaiman

When you choose being a loving soul, and give proper attention to your dreams without using your own will power, then you are in a process of creating a range of experiences which flow into your life harmoniously. — Hina Hashmi

But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and then the sudden moment: the knife stab, the shell burst, the plummet of the car from a bridge. — Margaret Atwood

I know they say you shouldn't take candy from strangers, but it's a cookie and not candy and technically, I'm not a stranger. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

War is an admission of failure — K.J. Parker

I would have things as they were in all the days of my life ... and in the days of my longfathers before me: to be the Lord of this City in peace, and leave my chair to a son after me, who would be his own master and no wizard's pupil. But if doom denies this to me, then I will have naught: neither life diminished, nor love halved, nor honour abated. — J.R.R. Tolkien