Tomkinson Churcher Quotes & Sayings

Teach your little ones about the rules of decent behaviour. When they grow up, it will be too late to learn. — Eraldo Banovac

In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world ... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back! — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A real diamond is never perfect. — Anthony Doerr

The world that is perceived through any measuring scale is called maya. — Devdutt Pattanaik

Shortly after I started working as a doctor, I decided to listen to the voice inside me before it was too late. It was now or never, so I decided to explore acting. — Jonathan LaPaglia

If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them. — Henry David Thoreau

Breathe in, breath out. Oxygen is carcinogenic and likely puts a limit on our life span. It would be unwise though, to try to extend life by not breathing at all.
Which of us doesn't do it? Either we loll in anaerobic stupor, too afraid to fill our lungs with risky beauty, or we roll out fire like dragons, destroying the world we love.
I try not to burn up my world with rage.
It is so hard. — Jeanette Winterson

I believe in a God of a second chance and a God of love and mercy, because I need so much more of it myself. — Michael Eric Dyson

I remember I could do - I did Bart Simpson once on the bus. I did, like, a really good Bart Simpson voice on the bus, obviously before I hit puberty. And everybody went, 'Whoa, that sounds just like Bart Simpson.' — Bill Hader

We are beginning to play with ideas of ecology, and although we immediately trivialize these into commerce or politics, there is at least an impulse still in the human breast to unify and thereby sanctify the total natural world, of which we are ... There have been, and still are, in the world many different and even contrasting epistemologies which have been alike in stressing an ultimate unity, and, although this is less sure, which have also stressed the notion that ultimate unity is aesthetic. The uniformity of these views gives hope that perhaps the great authority of quantitative science may be insufficient to deny an ultimate unifying beauty.
I hold to the presupposition that our loss of the sense of aesthetic unity was, quite simply, an epistemological mistake. — Gregory Bateson

Genuine courtesy is a creation, like pictures, like music. It is a harmonious blending of voice, gesture and movement, words and action, in which generosity of conduct is expressed. It reveals the man himself and has no ulterior purpose. — Rabindranath Tagore

The Chinese are a knowing people; and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age; to prevent their sons from seeing their own future. — Christina Stead

I am not a racist in any form whatsoever. I don't believe in any form of discrimination or segregation. — Malcolm X

My advice to authors would be to try to do something original rather than to try to anticipate what the market is looking for. — Jeff Kinney