"In the hill country, civilization steals in last, and the people retain much of the crude but vigorous mode of expression of the colonial days and earlier."

-- Robert E. Howard

#Country Quotes #Expression Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.”

Source : Walter Brueggemann (2010). “Journey to the Common Good”, p.35, Westminster John Knox Press
“If they don't know the Lord, I encourage them to search for and open their hearts and their eyes. If something happens to me tomorrow, I'm going to go to heaven and that's for sure because God's promised to us in the Bible. I want to make sure that those people out there feel the same. At the end of the day as long as I glorify him and those 45,000 people know who I represent out there every time I step out on the field, that's what it's about. It's about representing God.”
“We dropped our troubles into the lap of the storyteller, and they turned into someone else's.”
“My earliest memories are of my father explaining to me the American Dream and how he expected me to do better than he did.”
“There's more fun in hunting with the handicap of the bow than there is in hunting with the sureness of the gun.”
“If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now.”
“It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.”
“I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.”

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