Sir Francis Younghusband Quotes & Sayings

I'm proud to acknowledge my debt to the 'Reverend Satchelmouth' ... He is the beginning and the end of music in America — Bing Crosby

struggle is the life of sucess — Swami Vivekananda

Nobody is more individual than you, so be confident with who you are and what you have to offer because everybody has got things to offer. — Ashley Jensen

It is woefully hard to find good, or even merely literate, writers, and they laugh at me when I say that sloppy, go-as-you-please writing carries less authority than decent prose. You must remember our public, they say. And indeed that is what I do, and I think the public is fully able to deal with the best they can produce. Patronizing the public, and assuming that it hangs, breathless, upon what it reads in the papers, is almost the worst of journalistic sins. — Robertson Davies

My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind. — Patricia Briggs

God knew that children grow and mature best in a stable, loving family, and this was one reason He gave marriage to us. — Billy Graham

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence? — Sophocles

Like high mountain climbers who set up a base in the valley at the foot of the mountains and another camp and camp number two and camp number three at various heights on the road to the peak, and in every camp they leave food and provisions and equipment to make their last climb easier and to collect on their way back everything that might help them as they descend, so I leave my childhood and my youth and my adult years in various camps with a flag on every camp. I know I shall never return, but to get to the peak with no weight, light, light! — Yehuda Amichai

I had learned so much about marriage from Missy that I only had to get divorced two more times. — Terry Bradshaw

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck. — F Scott Fitzgerald

he gave it a gentle touch with his hand. — Anonymous

I don't believe a person can truly do "smiles" unless they are willing to risk doing "tears". You have to be able to risk to be able to gain, even if sometimes it is your tenuous grasp on your temporary sanity that is at risk. — Jim Melanson

It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also. — Ralph Waldo Emerson