Yorktown famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

  • I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.

  • That's universal - we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what's not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.

  • Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?

  • There is something about the Himalayas not possessed by the Alps, something unseen and unknown, a charm that pervades every hour spent among them, a mystery intriguing and disturbing. Confronted by them, a man loses his grasp of ordinary things, perceiving himself as immortal, an entity capable of outdistancing all changes, all decay, all life, all death.

  • I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set.

  • I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there.

  • Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.

  • I don't want to be a big star. I just want to get my message across.

  • Isn’t there a time or two you can remember when somehow an animal you’ve hunted has done something to make you let him vanish in the woods? … Isn’t there a bird or covey that somehow always manages to catch you with your gun on safe — even when you know it’s there? “I think we all know times that for almost certain we gave the hunt to the quarry.