Mackellar Services Quotes & Sayings

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. — Francis Bacon

I have the greatest affection for them but I know they're not going to make it for 500 years. They aren't. You know it, too. The Mexicans are a different cup of tea. They have a heritage. At the present time they steal, they're dishonest, but they do have some concept of family life. They don't live like a bunch of dogs, which the Negroes do live like. — Richard M. Nixon

Our act started at the bottom and went downhill. — Allan Sherman

There are not two realities, but only one reality, and that is the reality of God, which has become manifest in the Christ event/redemption and creation. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Carly grabbed at Howard, who was in the driver's seat, while she was buckled in behind him. She flopped back in the seat of the car over and over, screaming and crying, throwing herself hard against the constraints of the safety belt. "What's wrong? What's going on?" they asked over and over. When they finally arrived at Barb's several minutes later and turned off the car, Carly calmed sufficiently to respond. "You need a seat belt," Carly observed. Sheepishly, Howard acknowledged he hadn't fastened his when leaving our house. — Arthur Fleischmann

This was not an Indiana Jones classic holovid; it was real life. — Karen Lord

Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens characters are Nigerians. — Ben Okri

The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime — Bernard Malamud

Your own exploration therefore has to be personalized; you're doing it for yourself, increasing your own store of particular knowledge, walking your own eccentric version of the city. — Geoff Nicholson