Quotes
Authors
Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard
"Addressing the Columbia crew after winning the intercollegiate regatta: I congratulate you most heartily upon the splendid victory you have won, and the luster you have shed upon the name of Columbia College. I thank you for the Faculty of the College, for the manifest service you have done to this institution. . . . I am convinced that in one day or in one summer, you have done more to make Columbia College known than all your predecessors have done since the foundation of the college by this, your great triumph." --
Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard
#Summer Quotes
#Winning Quotes
#College Quotes
“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”
“Yelena, you've driven me crazy. You've caused me considerable trouble and I've contemplated ending your life twice since I've known you." Valek's warm breath in my ear sent a shiver down my spine. "But you’ve slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart.†“That sounds more like a poison than a person,†was all I could say. His confession had both shocked and thrilled me. “Exactly,†Valek replied. “You have poisoned me.”
Source : Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.246, Harlequin
“Tie your heart at night to mine, love, and both will defeat the darkness like twin drums beating in the forest against the heavy wall of wet leaves. Night crossing: black coal of dream that cuts the thread of earthly orbs with the punctuality of a headlong train that pulls cold stone and shadow endlessly. Love, because of it, tie me to a purer movement, to the grip on life that beats in your breast, with the wings of a submerged swan, So that our dream might reply to the sky's questioning stars with one key, one door closed to shadow.”
“If you're married, and you have a wife, and you really love your wife, is it good enough to only say to your wife 'I love her' the day you get married? Or should you tell her every single day when you wake up and every opportunity? And that's how I feel about my relationship with Jesus Christ is that it is the most important thing in my life.”
“I don't know if comedy is a male sport. I always wondered that.”
“The danger facing American Jews today is not that Christians want to persecute them but that Christians want to marry them.”
Source : Commentary Magazine, January 1994.
“Gay and lesbian couples should have the right to experience the joys of marriage and family.”
“I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test”
