Tacksmen Quotes & Sayings

God sometimes you just don't come through,
Do you need a woman to look after you? — Tori Amos

The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking
but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

My shoes are clean from walking in the rain. — Jack Kerouac

Obama said if elected his government would "harness technology to confront the biggest challenges that America faces". — Barack Obama

Extraordinarily, I was up in the cemetery in Derry City, and I had a red cape on with a fur hood as a little girl, when a gun battle broke out between the IRA and the British Army, and I got caught in the crossfire. — Roma Downey

I think people are willing to take more of a risk on an indie film, about character, etc ... but at the same time, when I work on projects that are substantially bigger, in a way they do feel small. Even though the catering is way better and we actually have someone shooting with real film ... The budgets are bigger but the story still feels small, like an indie film. — Adam Driver

There are times where people ask for a lock of your hair, but the truth is I have a lot of gratitude for my fans. — Nolan Gerard Funk

No experience is wasted. It is the stepping stones for a great success. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The works which this man [Joseph Banks] leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent; and yet his name will shine out with lustre in the history of the sciences. — Georges Cuvier

The average clan - and there were more than fifty of them in 1745 - was no more a family than is a Mafia "family." The only important blood ties were those between the chieftain and his various caporegimes, the so-called tacksmen who collected his rents and bore the same name. Below them were a large, nondescript, and constantly changing population of tenants and peasants, who worked the land and owed the chieftain service in war and peacetime. Whether they considered themselves Campbells or MacPhersons or Mackinnons was a matter of indifference, and no clan genealogist or bard, the seanachaidh, ever wasted breath keeping track of them. What mattered was that they were on clan land, and called it home. — Arthur Herman

And tacksmen pay the Watch to keep an — Diana Gabaldon

We can escape any hardship with hope in our heart. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I try to make movies that I love and that I'm passionate about and that I'm proud of. — Gregg Araki

Listening to God - which is a key part of practicing His presence - is not a method, but a walk with a person. — Leanne Payne