"One advantage of a monarchy is that a monarchy does not suffer the effects of having great clots of white Christians moping around simply because they aren't the king or queen."

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Calvin Trillin

#Christian Quotes #Kings Quotes #Queens Quotes

“I've seen plenty of ballplayers way better than me, but they didn't have the work ethic. It comes down to how bad you want it.”
“No man more truly loves God than he that is most fearful to offend Him.”

Source : Thomas Adams (1861). “The works: Being the sum of his sermons, meditations, and other divine and moral discourses. With memoir by Joseph Angus”, p.51
“The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most records, old and new, Africans are the oldest people on the face of the earth. The people now called Africans not only influenced the Greeks and the Romans, they influenced the early world before there was a place called Europe.”
“Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.”
“There was something missing inside me I was trying to fill up, but I went about doing it the wrong way. But there sure isn't anything missing inside me now, because you're there.”
“Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense layers of rhythms one upon the other.”
“Here's the thing. Just because you're pro-troops doesn't mean you're pro-war. And just because you're anti-war doesn't mean you're anti-troops. Just because you don't support the war people think you are anti-troops and you are a bad guy.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Love Comes Quickly is our favourite record ever, and it did really badly.”

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