Metzgers Richmond Quotes & Sayings

Life is lived on the edge. — Will Smith

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother. — Thomas Huxley

Most people think confidence lies in an excessive rehearsal. It's true that man has to prepare, plan and practice before projecting his purposes. But a time must definitely arrive when man has to put an end to learning and rehearsal and start practicing what he spent time learning. — Israelmore Ayivor

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it. — Alice Walker

I'd hate to see the look on my face when that mask came down and I saw the face behind it. Thinner than I remember. Paler. The eyes sunk deep into their sockets, kind of glazed over, like he's sick or hurt, but I recognize it, I know whose face was hidden behind that mask. I just can't process it.
Here, in this place. A thousand years later and a million miles from the halls of George Barnard High School. Here, in the belly of the beast at the bottom of the world, standing right in front of me.
Benjamin Thomas Parish.
And Cassiopeia Marie Sullivan, having a full-bore out-of-body experience, seeing herself seeing him. The last time she saw him was in their high school gymnasium after the lights went out, and then only the back of his head, and the only times that she's seen him since happened in her mind, the rational part of which always knew Ben Parish was dead like everyone else. — Rick Yancey

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done. — Thomas Carlyle

People at the top are closing ranks so tightly that all possibility of subjective deviation has gone, and difference can be sought only in the more distinguished cut of an evening dress. — Theodor Adorno

We need to triage those six hundred places. — Lee Child

Maturity entails a readiness, painful and wrenching though it may be, to look squarely into the long dark places, into the fearsome shadows. — Carl Sagan

Home is where you hang your hangover. — James Crumley

Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more. — Rita Dove

Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John. — Alfred Noyes

Hey, any team can have a bad century. — Tom Trebelhorn