"Hark! o'er the dread abyss the sea-bird screams-- The rocks resound--again the lightning gleams!"

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Source : John Ramsay (1836). “Poems”, p.9

John Ramsay

#Rocks Quotes #Sea Quotes #Bird Quotes

“Joe Mauer's the real deal. He is absolutely wonderful. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great human being. He's the kind of guy you'd like to see be your son.”
“Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.”
“Once you find the right idea, then go ahead and embellish it.”
“I read of the revivals of the past, great sweeping revivals where thousands of men were swept into the Kingdom of God. I read about Charles G. Finney winning his thousands and his hundreds of thousands of souls to Christ. Then I picked up a book and read the messages of Charles G. Finney and the message of Jonathan Edwards on 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,' and I said, 'No wonder men trembled; no wonder they fell in the altars and cried out in repentance and sobbed their way to the throne of grace!'”
“Wisdom is what separates average people from extraordinary people.”
“I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist.”

Source : "Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Americans" by A.J. Jacobs, www.esquire.com. November 16, 2011.
“Both cream and scum can rise to the top, unfortunately. This lower-quality stuff that's going higher isn't doing it on fundamentals.”
“Comic book' has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So someone will call 'Die Hard' a 'comic-book movie,' when it has nothing to do with comic books. I'd rather have comics be the vehicle by which stories are told.”

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