Marlians Quotes & Sayings

An idea on paper to a reality in large part. — Tom Ridge

Being instinctively lazy, I see no point in working longer hours just to get out of debt ! — L.G. Durand

We woke up before the sun, hitched the oxen to the wagon, herded the cattle out of the Platt's pasture where they had spent the night, and started off again on the road toward Peekskill. Peekskill was on the Hudson River. We would turn south there and go down the river about five miles to Verplancks Point. From North Salem to Peekskill was more than twenty miles. It would take us all day to make fifteen miles to our next stop, Father's friends south of Mohegan. We were supposed to pick up another escort. I hoped we would find it soon. I didn't like traveling through this country alone, and I kept looking around all the time for galloping horsemen. — James Lincoln Collier

You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky. — Paul Auster

That whole idea of threats to national security is a very interesting one. The phrase is very useful for the government to try to encompass the citizenry in the same box as the government is in. To say, "We're all in this together. It threatens all of us." — Howard Zinn

You can't give what you don't have. To lead people in a better way, mingle with them in body. But in knowledge, be far ahead of them! — Israelmore Ayivor

I asked a Jewish man, "Do you know where Michigan Avenue is?" He said, "Yes", and walked away. — Henny Youngman