Francis Birch Quotes

#1. Longing for our idealized images of life separates us from our true selves and from our true callings.

Stephen Cope

#2. Dally not with other folk's spouses or money.

Benjamin Franklin

#3. Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.

Charles Caleb Colton

#4. He had the unfortunate capacity many men, especially Russians, have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to be able to take a serious part in it.

Leo Tolstoy

#5. Reading in a sound booth seems very strange. Everyone has a process they are comfortable with; this was uncomfortable for me.

Gore Verbinski

#6. That's the beauty of country music - you have to get out there and earn it and work hard. And when you're on the road with big name acts, you realize there's no easy way to the 'Promised Land' in this business.

Luke Bryan

#7. If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.

Moon Unit Zappa

#8. They say that girls are the ones who want fairy tail endings, but then again, who are the authors of fairy tales? mostly men ...

Alina Radoi

#9. When you're in your nineties and looking back, it's not going to be how much money you made or how many awards you've won. It's really what did you stand for. Did you make a positive difference for people?

Elizabeth Dole

#10. I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead.

J.K. Rowling

#11. Note, Religion teaches good manners, and obliges us to give honour to those to whom honour is due.

Matthew Henry