Reardon Mortuary Quotes & Sayings

Purpose directs passion and passion ignites purpose. — Rhonda Britten

Muttering something, Tant raised his hands to the sky as he walked beside me. I wasn't sure if it was a prayer or curse, but I distinctly heard "Why me? — Elizabeth Vaughan

I love you every day,
Mom — Mitch Albom

I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets. — Barbara Broccoli

I later asked Mr. Jia about the characters for Christmas. He told me they meant 'holy ... birth ... festival'
Holy Birthday. So while my students may have never heard the Christmas story, their language still recognized its basic significance, all in just three characters. And those three characters expressed the essential meaning far more succinctly than the Latin-based expressions for Christmas I was familiar with. — Aminta Arrington

That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me. — Daniel Okrent

I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names. — Mary Wortley Montagu

Tis I whom children love the best; / My wealth is all for them; / For them is set each glossy cup / Upon each sturdy stem. — Cicely Mary Barker

It looks like you managed to build your own pack, anyway, my dear. A parasol protectorate, perhaps one might say. — Gail Carriger

I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down. — Henry Rollins

When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war — Aristotle.

I am against intervention by a foreign power against us. — Moshe Sharett

I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution. — Ben Nighthorse Campbell

I cannot significantly improve on the assertion that it simply is proper for us, as intelligent members of the universe, to try to look after our fellow creatures, and evil for us to do otherwise. — Colin Tudge

Together the five orbiters Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour have flown a total of 133 successful missions, an unequaled accomplishment of engineering, management, and political savvy. But it's the two disasters that people remember, that most shape the shuttle's story. The lovely dream of spaceflight I grew up with is marred by the images of Challenger and Columbia breaking apart in the sky, the lost astronauts smiling on hopefully in their portraits, oblivious. Some people took the disasters to mean the entire space program had been a lie, that the dream itself was tainted with our fallibility. But even as a child, I knew it was more complex than that. If we want to see people take risks, we have to be prepared to sometimes see them fail. The story of American spaceflight is a story with many endings, a story of how we have weighed our achievements against our failures. — Margaret Lazarus Dean