Earl Hamner Jr Quotes

#1. As a running back, it takes five offensive linemen, a tight end, a fullback and possibly two wide receivers, in order to make my job successful.

Marshawn Lynch

#2. You did respond - your response was the worst kind - you did nothing.

Emily Franklin

#3. A mountain has no need for people, but people do need mountains. We go to them for their beauty, for the exhilaration of standing closer to mysterious skies, for the feeling of triumph that comes from having labored to reach a summit.

Earl Hamner Jr.

#4. Or are we only fully accepting of our faith when we are free to reject it, as is possible in Western liberal democracies?

Omar Saif Ghobash

#5. Tithing is not a matter of money, really; it is a matter of faith - faith in the Lord. He promises blessings if we obey His commandments.

Carl B. Pratt

#6. I was there [in school] the full time with one teacher, and the student body was never more than 10 or 12 students of all ages.

Paul Smith

#7. The nice thing about life," said Miss Etta, "is you never know when there's going to be a party.

Earl Hamner Jr.

#8. The movies are probably a very unsafe guide to popular taste, because the film industry is virtually a monopoly, which means that it is not obliged to study its public at all closely.

George Orwell

#9. But children can't be a center of life and a reason for being. They can be a thousand things that are delightful, interesting, satisfying, but they can't be a well-spring to live from. Or they shouldn't be.

Doris Lessing

#10. It smelled something like a keg of bad beer overturned in a mortician's storage room on a hot summer's day.

Scott Lynch

#11. If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.

Earl Hamner Jr.

#12. Whenever Mary the other twenty griffins Mary had finds riders the destruction they could bring would be enormous.

Whiskey Flowers

#13. Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

Barbara Olson

#14. Trust in God and go to church.

Earl Hamner Jr.

#15. A man who has not better government of his tongue, no more command of his temper, is unfit for everything but children's play and the company of boys.

David McCullough

#16. A man, well, he'll walk right into Hell with both eyes open. But even the devil can't fool a dog.

Earl Hamner Jr.

#17. I think only bookworms understand the kind of power stories can have on a person

Cassie Mae

#18. I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.

Earl Hamner Jr.

#19. Money talks, but it don't sing and dance, and it don't walk. And long as I can have you here with me, I'd much rather be, forever in blue jeans.

Neil Diamond

#20. Time will pass whether you do it or not

Rod Walsh

#21. Nothing else is as fulfilling as playing a part in which you are able to have a significant say in the creative process all the way through. How many actors get to do that? It's extremely rare.

Tom Hollander