Badge Ceremony Quotes

#1. There are periods that we forget that in the pursuit of fruit, that if we just abide in Him, then fruitfulness is a guarantee.

Francis Chan

#2. The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'

Daniel Craig

#3. A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

Emile M. Cioran

#4. My parents weren't stereotypical and pressuring me to go to college. They mentioned it a lot and constantly, but it wasn't a do or die thing, like, 'You have to do this or you're done.'

Harry Shum Jr.

#5. My father used to say that you could only access culture before cinema by learning to read and write, but that once cinema was invented, knowledge was available to anybody.

Isabella Rossellini

#6. I don't keep any copy of my books around ... they would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them.

Ludwig Bemelmans

#7. The best opportunities to be nice to others come in the face of adversity. Kindness wins. Reciprocity rules.

David Chiles

#8. I shall a good deal gratify my own vanity.

Benjamin Franklin

#9. Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it's been.

Jerry Garcia

#10. These two entities - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - are not facing any kind of financial crisis,

Barney Frank

#11. If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.

John Milton