Johnstown's Quotes

#1. All of Johnstown's three or four blind people had survived the flood.

David McCullough

#2. The disaster at Johnstown was one that need never have happened and a powerful reminder that it can be terribly dangerous, even perilous, to assume that because people hold positions of responsibility they are therefore acting responsibly.

David McCullough

#3. Everybody thinks that I did this and I did that, but I just went along with the times.

Joe Gold

#4. No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.

Maria Edgeworth

#5. It is difficult to practice obedience; but it is even more difficult to practice leadership.

Gregory Of Nazianzus

#6. Power is trust
I repeat... that all power is a trust

Azhar

#7. The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#8. I tell myself that's what you get when you put thirty-one toilets on the most popular girl's front yard. People tend to treat you a little differently than before.

Kathryn Stockett

#9. A night journey is essentially a thing of possibilities.

Katherine Cecil Thurston

#10. I'm not particularly worried by any of the songs we've written in the past, except for some of the really early stuff which is total tripe.

Bernard Fanning

#11. Though the brain says all is well, the soul is lost, confused, doesn't know why life is being unfair to it.

Paulo Coelho

#12. The longing of every heart is to be loved.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport one to an impossible state of happiness, but to help (the client) acquire steadfastness and patience in the face of suffering.

Carl Jung

#14. I never saw a gun until I was 24. I didn't grow up in Mayberry; I grew up in Southern California.

Susan Straight

#15. The teenage lead singer counted off, and the band launched into a hot version of "Ooh, My Head," the old Ritchie Valens song - and not really so old in the summer of '61, although Valens had been dead for almost two years.

Stephen King

#16. After Bruno Walter, my career went in leaps and bounds. I have had 35 years of a career that is just incredible, and a wonderful time all over the world.

Maureen Forrester