Burt Munro famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'

  • The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.

  • Existence is not itself a good thing, that we should spend a lifetime securing its necessaries: a life spent, however victoriously, in securing the necessaries of life is no more than an elaborate furnishing and decoration of apartments for the reception of a guest who is never to come. Our business here is not to live, but to live happily.

  • When a soul is created, so is its mate. In every lifetime those souls find each other. They complete the other's destiny.

  • I'm a lifetime St. Louis Cardinals fan.

  • I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

  • I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

  • Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.

  • I'm lucky and I appreciate that. I love every minute of every day.

  • The minute I sat in front of a canvas I was happy. Because it was a world, and I could do what I liked in it.

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