Ursell Peterson Quotes & Sayings

BECAUSE THIS MONEY came from Texas, the rise of Lyndon Johnson sheds light on the new economic forces that surged out of the Southwest in the middle of the twentieth century, on the immense influence exerted over America's politics, its governmental institutions, its foreign and domestic policies by these forces: the oil and sulphur and gas and defense barons of the Southwest. As the robber barons of the last century looted the nation's earth of its wealth - its coal and coke, its oil and ore, its iron, its forests, the very surface of its earth to provide a footing for the rails of their railroads - and used part of that wealth to ensure that the nation's government would not force them to give more than a pittance of their loot back to the nation's people, so the robber barons of this century have drained the earth of the Southwest of its riches and have used those riches to bend government to their ends. — Robert A. Caro

I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building. — Helmut Jahn

A chain of iron is less difficult to break than a chain of flowers. — Eliphas Levi

Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door. — Frank Herbert

I can hear then say, "You're welcome, Will."
When I thanked them for sending you from heaven. — Colleen Hoover

I guess I harboured hopes that things would happen more quickly, but I'm not disappointed. — Jerry Greenfield

Now, with the general decay of religious faith , it is the scientists who must speak ex cathedra, whether they wish to or not. — Richard M. Weaver

With them the individual counted for nothing. No one was irreplaceable, because they drew no distinction between one man and another... In this community there was harmony, but no love. — Michael Ende

It's nice to have recognition for doing a good job, but at the end of the day, I'm just an actor and I'm doing my job and I'm always trying to get better at doing that job. — Richard Madden