Oshell Houston Quotes

#1. Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat ...

Phyllis McGinley

#2. Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.

Mark Twain

#3. Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.

Charles De Gaulle

#4. From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyers in South Africa, but we were the only firm of African lawyers. For Africans, we were the firm of first choice and last resort.

Nelson Mandela

#5. The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect: as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong, from which mechanics took its name.

Isaac Newton

#6. In a time like that, the past meets you wherever you turn. The days do not use their own hours and minutes, they find ones you have lived through with the person you are missing.

Ivan Doig

#7. Having faith in God means extending yourself into uncharted waters, exposing your heart and soul so others may benefit, even when it's inconvenient.

Robert Palasciano

#8. I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#9. A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.

Samuel Johnson