George Grinnell Quotes

#1. There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Benjamin Franklin

#2. people must die, so that their friends who are left alive may always remember them.

George Bird Grinnell

#3. You've got to enjoy yourself. The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it. That's how I look at it. Ask anybody, they'll all tell you. The evening's the best part of the day.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#4. And I think the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world.

Jimmy Carter

#5. The Cheyenne Indians: their history and lifeways : edited and illustrated

George Bird Grinnell

#6. We are a water-drinking people, and we are allowing every brook to be defiled.

George Bird Grinnell

#7. One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches.

Andre Leon Talley

#8. Are you guys seriously messing around with real weapons?" she exclaimed. "It's like you want Darwin Awards!"

Tom flushed, and set his gun back on its hook. "It's not like we were going to start a dynastic war or something."

"Yeah," Vik said guiltily, returning his own weapon.

S.J. Kincaid

#9. May he die with no joy at his end, The man who won't be troubled To unlock the keys of his heart and make a friend.

Euripides

#10. Everyone knows that (1) happiness is the goal of life, and (2) happiness is a chimera.

Mason Cooley

#11. A good deed that follows upon another is the reward for the first one, and an evil deed that follows upon another is a punishment for the first one.

Junayd

#12. Studies show that when we vocalize an opinion, whether or not we believe it to be true, in time we usually come to support it.

David J. Lieberman

#13. Keep the progress, but recover the lost values. Technically, then he's talking about renaissance: the rebirth of old ideas in a new framework.

Douglas Rushkoff

#14. As for the blood and the head business, the blood and the head work together and what is not first in the blood can sometimes reach it by going first through the head and what is wrong in the blood can sometimes be tempered by the head.

Flannery O'Connor

#15. Wars are not caused by the buildup of weapons. They are caused when an aggressor believes he can achieve his objectives at an acceptable price.

Margaret Thatcher

#16. There is a solitude, or perhaps a solemnity, in the few hours that precede the dawn of day which is unlike that of any others in the twenty-four, and which I cannot explain or account for. Thoughts come to me at this time that I never have at any other.

George Bird Grinnell

#17. I'm not like a high intellectual.

Billy West