Millards Crossing Nacogdoches Quotes & Sayings

No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators. — Mahatma Gandhi

The problem with fear-based Christianity is we only obey when the fear is there. If you only want to obey God when you feel threatened by his commands, it's not God you worship, but your fear. — Jefferson Bethke

To frighten others was simple. To control oneself and act calmly was a — Emily Cantore

Children and fools speak true. — John Lyly

When one does look up at the grand trees growing up almost to the sky, one does always have longings to pray. — Opal Whiteley

The guy you've been seeing, the one you were all so secret-squirrel about, was my dad?" Cooper nodded. "Yes." "Oh, fucking hell," Ryan squeaked. "The one you said sucked dick like a Dyson? — N.R. Walker

On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence. — John Keats

A good ice hockey player is someone who has good communication skills, is willing to listen and willing to try new things. It's a very technical game and not that easy to pick up. It's a lot of fun but you just have to be patient. — Gerad Adams

metamorphosis, n.:

Love turns us into winged creatures, venturing in ways we never could have conceived in our crawling days. — David Levithan

My personal favorite version of the game, Speed Scrabble, is played with tiles only. Each player selects seven tiles. At the call to start, each player turns over his or her tiles. Using these letters, the player creates an individual grid of six letters, with two or possibly three intersecting words, selecting one letter to pass along. The first player to finish calls out the word switch, passes the rejected tiles to the player at the right, and turns over two new tiles from the general pile. Each player then incorporates the new tiles into his or her grid, always rejecting one to pass along at the word switch. Obvious rejects are Q and Z, which usually get passed around. The game is played until the tiles are depleted and one person calls out the word finished. If no one has any questions about the winner's grid, the points on the tiles are added up. Losers deduct the number of points of the unused letters. Each round takes about fifteen or twenty minutes max... — Michelle Arnot

We are not measured by the challenges we face in life, but rather by the steps we take to overcome them. — Rick Daley

Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick. — Benjamin Disraeli