Smithback Farm Quotes & Sayings

It's not worthy o human beings to give up. — Alva Myrdal

If it is cheap enough, we don't care what it is. — Peter Cundill

I was put on a surfboard by a cute boyfriend in high school. — Marguerite Moreau

It is the blight man was born for. It is Margaret you mourn for. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

Stradivarius, in particular, was the most amazing craftsman and one of the great artists and scientists that ever lived because he figured out something with the sound and the science of acoustics that we still don't understand it completely. — Joshua Bell

An unreflective passion for social justice may be one of the biggest obstacles to creating peace and prosperity in the 21st century. While there are most certainly factory owners in China whom we would rightly regard as criminal in their treatment of their workers, it is very important not to confuse these incidents with the phenomenon of globalization. It is a good thing that Wal-Mart is encouraging more humane standards in its supplier's factories. — Michael Strong

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability. — Arthur Schopenhauer

It's important to keep trying to do what you think is right no matter how hard it is or how often you fail. Never stop trying — John Wooden

He had an air of magnificent melancholy sophistication, as if his proper place were elsewhere, somewhere infinitely more compelling even than Brakebills, and he'd been confined to his present setting by a grotesque divine oversight, which he tolerated with as much good humor as could be expected. — Lev Grossman

Whenever I see an unmarried woman carrying a child, my first response is one of respect. I know she could have taken the quick fix without anyone knowing, but she chose instead to let an innocent child live. — Randy Alcorn

Even the man whom we think we know best . . . is at bottom a stranger to us. He is different. The most we can do, and the best, is to have at least some inkling of his otherness, to respect it, and to guard against the outrageous stupidity of wishing to interpret it (1928, p. 220-221). — Anonymous