Cockney Rhyming Quotes

#1. My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicked on a few pages and came to China, which is cockney rhyming slang for mate.

China Mieville

#2. The world peeps, squawks, bangs, and thunders at many frequencies all at once. What is a significant delay depends - usually - on which set of frequencies you're trying to understand.

Donella H. Meadows

#3. Loss taught me about the frailty and transient nature of man. It taught me humility. It taught me about the urgency of service, of touching lives, of mentoring, of legacy. Of making hay while there is still sunshine and life.

Nana Awere Damoah

#4. If you want the best the world has to offer, offer the world your best.

Neale Donald Walsch

#5. There is no revival possible in any fellowship without a price being paid.

Alan Redpath

#6. Let us have peace.

Ulysses S. Grant

#7. I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.

Daniel Dennett

#8. I still can't manage to keep a journal, and people have been telling me to since the fourth grade.

John Darnielle

#9. You dont know your wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day.

Michael Parenti

#10. he finally found his way back to the trailer before

Mike Echols

#11. The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman - these are public value-founders.

Seamus Heaney

#12. The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in science, it is the only end. Hence the practical arts are not to be classed among the sciences

William Whewell

#13. Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies.
[Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]

Tacitus