Handcart Pioneers Quotes

#1. The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth

Rabindranath Tagore

#2. When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not slaves. Their nations were old before Europe was born.

John Henrik Clarke

#3. They left their encampment with dirt-covered linen strewn about the abandoned grounds amongst clothes, shoes, children's toys and other discarded belongings. The handcart wheels crunched over them, and the dry wheels screamed as the Willie Company started for Zion.

Sage Steadman

#4. The love of beauty is really a signal to free ourselves from that sensory attachment, and to begin the ascent of the soul towards the world of ideas, there to participate in the divine version of reproduction, which is the understanding and the passing on of eternal truths.

Roger Scruton

#5. To be happy is to love yourself. I understand it now and so the only option seems is TO BE.

Rohit

#6. I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities.

Mario Monti

#7. You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.

Oriana Fallaci

#8. If you want to keep something from falling in the tiolet - shut the lid.

(Politicians might do well to memorize this.)

R. Felini

#9. Why aren't you happy? they tend to focus on their current circumstances. Happy people look to Someone so big that by his grace, even great difficulties provide opportunities for a deeper kind of happiness.

Randy Alcorn