David Buick Quotes

#1. My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

Barack Obama

#2. One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something, one has to go further, so that one gets firsthand experience.

Chogyam Trungpa

#3. If a being from another world were to ask you, "How can I learn what it's like to be human?" a good answer would be, "Study mythology.

Joseph Campbell

#4. If we are not able to fix the Lord firmly in our hearts, even a lifetime of temple-going does not do us any good.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#5. The failure is the man who stays down when he falls.

David Dunbar Buick

#6. Thank God for imminent doomsday.

Jim Butcher

#7. The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American.

Gerald Vizenor

#8. We seldom require more to the happiness of the present hour than to surpass him that stands next before us.

Samuel Johnson