Barnardo Quotes

#1. My father worked for a children's home called Dr. Barnardo's Homes. They're a charity.

David Bowie

#2. The art of compromise centers on the willingness to give up something in order to get something else in return. Successful artists get more than they give up.

Howard Raiffa

#3. There can be only one Captain to a ship.

Thomas John Barnardo

#4. Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.

George Orwell

#5. I never bothered about keeping track.Every now and then someone records one of my songs, and I get credit for it.

Mose Allison

#6. The work to me is everything, and I would throw every rule overboard and send them to the bottom of the sea tomorrow, if I felt there were a more excellent way.

Thomas John Barnardo

#7. When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.

Langhorne Slim

#8. Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.

Niklaus Wirth

#9. People keep asking me, "Where do you get the ideas for your books?"
From the worst moments in my life.
I call that "literature through disaster." I got the whole Tales from Earth's End Saga that way, as well as Numenon. Don't be afraid of the hard times.

Sandy Nathan

#10. Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills.

Thomas John Barnardo

#11. What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.

Julian Fellowes

#12. Do what you want, if it is something you did regret the next day, sleep in late.

Wiz Khalifa

#13. The spiritual is whatever allows us to notice the miraculous nature of life.

Aurora Levins Morales

#14. How do you pledge allegiance to a government? That's all America is: a government. There's no such thing as 'we're Americans.' That's just trivial bullshit to get you rooting for the home team. You're not an American. You're a guy, you're a person, you're an individual.

Doug Stanhope

#15. Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.

Thomas John Barnardo

#16. Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.

Matthew Henry