Patchington Quotes & Sayings

She who is in slow motion,
Is glowing red with blood
Which is mine. — Keishi Ando

Trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit, or become a children's playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an architecture of food and pleasure, that was a tree. But most of all the trees would distill an icy air for the lungs, and a gentle rustling for the ear when you lay nights in your snowy bed and were gentled to sleep by the sound. — Ray Bradbury

Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country. — Jared Diamond

If a plague carried off the members of a society all at once, it is obvious that the group would be permanently done for. Yet the death of each of its constituent members is as certain as if an epidemic took them all at once. But the graded difference in age, the fact that some are born as some die, makes possible through transmission of ideas and practices the constant reweaving of the social fabric. Yet this renewal is not automatic. Unless pains are taken to see that genuine and thorough transmission takes place, the most civilized group will relapse into barbarism and then into savagery. — John Dewey

I'm amazed that years after I stopped playing tennis, people still recognize me in restaurants and ask for my autograph. — Bjorn Borg

'Your Life Calling' is the first thing in my long career I've ever actually invented. It is my entrepreneurial debut. — Jane Pauley

Yes, I am a pilot. I am a flight instructor and a commercial pilot. — Treat Williams

No, you will not be cooked on a fire when you die. Because you are not a fish. — Margaret Atwood

Patrick Henry said 'give me liberty or give me death.' I think his famous quote makes it crystal clear that the Constitutional framework of this country values liberty as an essential element of life, worth dying for. If something is worth such a sacrifice, how can the loss of it be justified for the argument that it will make us safer to give up our liberty and our civil rights? Are we to tell the mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers of all the soldiers lost in foreign wars that it was all a big lie? That they died for nothing? — Kenneth Eade

I have it on good authority- well, I have it on distinctly disreputable but probably truthful authority- that his enterprises are perfectly well known to the local new police. — M.J. Carter

I am my own hero. I will slay the dragons. I need no one to save me." The — Shannon Mayer