Parkes Quotes

#1. Personally, I would not give a fig for any man's religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its benefits. Life in any form is our perpetual responsibility.

S. Parkes Cadman

#2. Knitting has a profound connective power. The culture and people and rituals around it, the values, they all contribute to an immediate and profound trust in one another. It's home. You belong and are accepted, which rings true no matter where you are.

Clara Parkes

#3. A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

S. Parkes Cadman

#4. If my heart is broken, I should be thankful that I was blessed to have loved but I cannot live that wisely. That's why I cry.

Nii Parkes

#5. We have abolished human bondage because it cursed those who imposed it. It is now our bounden duty to oppose cruelty to those creatures of our common Father which share with man the mystery of life.

S. Parkes Cadman

#6. Beyond domestic animals and our response to their fealty and affection, we have a peculiar charge concerning the wild animals which supply our clothes, food and adornments.

S. Parkes Cadman

#7. Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. every employee and manager must understand who you are as a company, and what you stand for. They must be true to your brand values and be able to passionately explain them to your prospects and customers.

Richard Parkes Cordock

#9. All knitterly creation stems from one simple element: yarn. It is the baker's flour, the jeweler's gold, the gardener's soil. Yarn is creation, consolation, and chaos all spun together into one perfect ball.

Clara Parkes

#10. A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move, propelled by electric motors, wind, water or by hand.

Alexander Calder

#11. With their big hit, PiL had reached a whole new generation of fans, and the gig had sold out very fast. But right down at the front were a crowd of about three to four hundred hardcore, old-school punks who had come creeping out of the squats of Camden and Shepherd's Bush to greet their hero. To

Simon Parkes

#12. For too long, information, opportunities, and resources have been constraints, they need to be the bridges.

Sharad Vivek Sagar

#13. Dinner was fried chicken, collard greens, and silence.

Saundra Mitchell

#14. No one would stand for it [being the fool in the media] in a minute if you took any other group -Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanics, women - but somehow it's okay to do that with hillbillies.

John Shelton Reed

#15. Because we lack sufficient financial clout to establish a permanent place for such learning, we have this traveling circus of experts who roam from town to town, event to event, squeaky-wheeled suitcases of samples in tow.

Clara Parkes

#16. In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

Paul Valery

#17. Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.

Virgil

#18. I've never in my life categorized a year of my life as good or bad. I just think I'm living a good life, warts and all.

Michael Winter

#19. Nothing is a stronger cultural lightning rod than two needles and a ball of yarn. But

Clara Parkes

#20. All knitting is choreography.

Clara Parkes

#21. Nobody dreams of music in hell, and nobody conceives of heaven without it.

S. Parkes Cadman

#22. I'm cashmere, for God's sake," it grumbles. "I deserve better than Rubbermaid.

Clara Parkes

#23. When my family decided to leave England I could not have been happier. I was sort of like - America seemed like the land of opportunity and, you know, it was Hollywood to me.

Aasif Mandvi

#24. I have been disappointed in all my expectations of Australia, except as to its wickedness; for it is far more wicked than I have conceived it possible for any place to be, or than it is possible for me to describe to you in England.

Henry Parkes

#25. Nonhuman animals instinctively know that stopping is the best way to get healed.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#26. A man must be himself or nothing!

Henry Parkes

#27. Punctuation is the pragmatics of written language.

M.B. Parkes

#28. The United States invented the Internet and it has been our gift to the world, paid for by our taxpayers. The U.N.'s desire to take that gift as a means of increasing its power must be stopped.

John Doolittle

#29. But Fuchsia might as well have been carved from dark marble. Only her tears moved.

Mervyn Peake

#30. No matter how slick the technology or charming the person on screen, I don't think we'll ever be able to replicate the full extent of the human learning experience online.

Clara Parkes

#31. In one hand I have a dream, and in the other I have an obstacle. Tell me, which one grabs your attention?

Henry Parkes

#32. You've heard about the knitter's handshake? Two hands go in for the grab-and-shake, but at the last minute, they veer to the closest sleeve or band and grab it instead while we ask, "Did you knit this?

Clara Parkes