Stand Firm famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.

  • Our life and our death is with our neighbor. If we gain our brother, we have gained God, but if we scandalize our brother, we have sinned against Christ.

  • The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence.

  • Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.

  • I would rather exercise than read a newspaper.

  • When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.

  • The greatest drawback in making pictures is the fact that film makers have to eat.

  • The ecological crisis we face is so obvious that it becomes easy...to join the dots and see that everything is interconnected. This is the ecological thought. And the more we consider it, the more our world opens up." The ecological thought "...is a vast, sprawling mesh of interconnection without a definite center or edge. It is radical intimacy, coexistence with other beings, sentient and otherwise.

  • Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use.

  • The first thing I notice about a girl, is her hands. I like girls with nice hands. ... And she must be spontaneous as well.