Schoch Family Farmstead Quotes & Sayings

The loss of liberty in general would soon follow the suppression of the liberty of the press; for it is an essential branch of liberty, so perhaps it is the best preservative of the whole. — John Peter Zenger

If an artist tells you "this is an oak tree," then it better be an oak tree. It's how you proclaim things; if you say "the silence is the music," then it's the music. — Igor Levit

To compare other things with God, is to debase Deity; as if you should compare the shining of a glow-worm with the sun. 3. — Thomas Watson

In bad times, the rich usually get richer. — Stuart Wilde

Here's to adrenaline.
Here's to dramatic abandon of protocol.
Here's to treasured pain and purple rain.
Here's to chasing our souls,

burning across to sky.

Here's to drinking the ash as it falls,
and not asking why. — Virginia Petrucci

When Marguerite (Marguerite-Louise of France, Grand Duchess of Tuscany), caught malaria, she claimed the royal family of Tuscany was trying to murder her, but that she would, in fact, rather die than return to her husband. Louis XIV asked the pope to threaten excommunication if Marguerite persisted, and the pontiff sent her a harsh letter. She didn't fear hell, she replied she was already living in it. — Eleanor Herman

I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform. — Marva Collins

Truth is honey to the lips, Poison to the ears — Damien Boyd

I went to Boston College. It's a Catholic college, yeah I had a nickname there: Jew. — Gary Gulman

He in whose heart the law was, and who alone of all mankind was content to do it, His sacrifice alone can be the sacrifice all-sufficient in the Father's sight as the proper sacrifice of humanity; He who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, He alone can give the Spirit which enables us to present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. He is the only High-Priest of the universe. — Frederick William Robertson

Is there an award for the best trophy? I bet they hand out a plaque. — Dana Gould

Anger and self-righteousness combined with cynicism about the world as he or she sees it are the marks of the ideologue. There is always an element of nostalgia, too, because the ideologue is confident that he or she is moved by a special loyalty to a natural order, or to a good and normative past, which others defy or betray. — Marilynne Robinson

Why is it that you don't love me?"
"Sometimes I wish I knew ... "
"Don't anybody tell him!! — Charles M. Schulz

My personal peculiarities could not offend her since she was totally uninterested in my pretensions to be a person. — Iris Murdoch