Sortwell Bagpiping Quotes & Sayings

The Fall is where the nation is. The Fall is the locus of America. — William Stringfellow

Inviting an invasion by foreigners and instigating one against them are two sides of the same neoconservative coin. — Ilana Mercer

The Council's expanding the refuges, at least, but it's still nonsensical. — Francesca Haig

Nature is satisfied with little; and if she is, I am also. — Baruch Spinoza

Great periods of poetry begin with an inordinate self-consciousness, and only gradually attain to the natural. — Mark Van Doren

In the United States, many people said you can't have folk music in the United States because you don't have any peasant class. But the funny thing was, there were literally thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people who loved old time fiddling, ballads, banjo tunes, blues played on the guitar, spirituals and gospel hymns. These songs and music didn't fit into any neat category of art music nor popular music nor jazz. So gradually they said well let's call it folk music. — Pete Seeger

Be careful. You're making hurting a habit. Spreading it around won't lessen your pain, you know. Just the opposite. — Louise Penny

Finally, I had my answer: I could. I could question the narrative I had been taught about myself. I could take a risk and have it pay off in dividends. — Various

Your life matters. You can't live through a day without making an impact on the world. And what's most important is to think about the impact of your actions on the world around you. — Jane Goodall

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television. — Atom Egoyan

There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within. — Susan Anton

Society wants to believe it can identify evil people, or bad or harmful people, but it's not practical. There are no stereotypes. — Ted Bundy

No, I don't have to tell a soul about this, I promised myself. When you are a kid, you don't know yet that a secret, like an animal, can evolve. Like an animal, a secret can develop a self-preserving intelligence. Shaglike, mute and thick, a knowledge with a fur: your secret. — Karen Russell