Coldfield Observatory Quotes

#1. Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#2. The real tragedy of our postcolonial world is not that the majority of people had no say in whether or not they wanted this new world; rather, it is that the majority have not been given the tools to negotiate this new world.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#3. On these occasions I read quickly, voraciously, almost skimming, trying to get as much into my head as possible before the next long starvation. If it were eating it would be gluttony of the famished; if it were sex it would be a swift furtive stand-up in an alley somewhere.

Margaret Atwood

#4. Bread and beauty grow best together. Their harmonious integration can make farming not only a business but an art; the land not only a food-factory but an instrument for self-expression, on which each can play music to his own choosing.

Aldo Leopold

#5. A cruel critic has never made anything; his glibness is a way of inflicting his emptiness on others.

John Lahr

#6. And maybe there will be,
after all,
some slack and perfectly balanced
blind and rough peace, finally,
in the deep and green and utterly motionless pools after all that
falling?

Mary Oliver

#7. If you believe the noises of the world, rather than the silences of your soul, you will be lost.

Neale Donald Walsch

#8. And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most

Patrick Ness

#9. You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What - doesn't make a difference! Doesn't make a difference. I think he did a good job.

Cab Calloway

#10. I truly believe that the individual who learns to practice thanksgiving activates within himself and around himself continuous victories and blessings from God.

Norman Vincent Peale

#11. I want a politics that doesn't need to pretend to be holy or perfect or infallible. I want a politics that gets on with it.

Nick Harkaway

#12. 42nd Street with its quarter mile of marquees offering porn of all types, colors, sizes, and flavors.

Rich Zahradnik

#13. Only a few more weeks till spring ... and a few more weeks then till summer ... and holidays ... and Green Gables ... and golden sunlight on Avonlea meadows ... and a gulf that will be silver at dawn and sapphire at noon and crimson at sunset ... and you.

L.M. Montgomery

#14. Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character.

Vince Lombardi