Urban Recreation Quotes & Sayings

Just as surely as every new language mastered opens up a new world, so knowledge of a Beethoven, a Chopin, or a Schumann opens up a new world in spiritual beauty and thought. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski

The language in which thought is embodied is the mere carcass of the thought, and not the idea itself; tribunals may condemn the form, but the sense and spirit of the work is too subtle for their authority. — Alexis De Tocqueville

The efficacy of our prayers depends on how much we care for one another. — Marion G. Romney

Well, I mean, the original is certainly the jump-off, it certainly is what it is, you know, I grew up around that era so I watched all those shows. The basic concept is there, it's just a different movie. Totally different actors, different filmmakers, different script, but same concept. — Antoine Fuqua

A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life. — Rick Warren

It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise. — Gottfried Leibniz

The quietness here had an agreement with dust; neither settled. — Brian Catling

Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers. — George Eliot

I was not influenced by Jack Benny, and people have remarked on my timing and Jack's timing, but I don't think you can teach timing. It's something you hear in your head. — Bob Newhart

Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground. — Alan Cohen

It takes a long time to understand nothing. — Edward Dahlberg

My uncles, who are farmers in Minooka, Illinois - I grew up with them and their pickup trucks and mustaches, and to me that was masculinity: big hairy sweaty guys who could pick up a bus. — Nick Offerman

Tax time approaches, and Americans are as always paying H & R Block billions to help them save some of their wealth from their ravenous government. Pitiful, in a way: it underlines the grim but
unacknowledged fact that the government is their enemy and they have to hire protection from it. But don't we enjoy 'self-government'? Well, if we have it, I'd hardly say we enjoy it. True, we aren't being taxed by the monarch of Great Britain, but our American-born rulers claim far more of our wealth than the British monarchs ever did. — Joseph Sobran

I began absolutely non-stop tormenting my parents, begging them on a daily basis to move there. — Taylor Swift

We dress them [children] in the presumptions of the world. They are the bright small face of hope. They are the last belief we have, the belief in making them believe. — E.L. Doctorow