Top 84 Quotes About Lubbock
#1. I had a map on my wall that had a circle around Lubbock and then giant arrows pointing toward New York City and Los Angeles. Written across both arrows were the words 'Toward Civilization.' Of course, by the time I got to New York, I realized there really isn't any civilization.
Barry Corbin
#2. In Lubbock, we grew up with two main things: God loves you and he's gonna send you to hell, and that sex is bad and dirty and nasty and awful and you should save it for the one you love.
Butch Hancock
#3. Life in Lubbock, Texas taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth, and you should save it for someone you love.
Nikki Sex
#4. My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
Natalie Maines
#5. The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was ... They put a pinch on it.
Bob Livingston
#6. First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There was about 1500 screaming kids.
Mac Davis
#7. To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being."- Biologist John Lubbock.
John Lubbock
#8. I am very excited to be included in the very first college baseball Hall of Fame class. For me to be honored with these coaches and players that I have grown to admire and respect is very special. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone in Lubbock.
Skip Bertman
#9. I was flying back from Lubbock and I saw Jesus on the plane, or maybe it was Elvis. You know, they kind of look the same.
Don Henley
#10. Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
John Lubbock
#11. Everyone must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.
John Lubbock
#12. Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.
John Lubbock
#13. We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
John Lubbock
#14. There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist
John Lubbock
#15. However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.
John Lubbock
#16. The art of fiction does not begin until the novelist thinks of his story as a matter to be shown, to be so exhibited that it will tell itself.
Percy Lubbock
#17. If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.
John Lubbock
#18. A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.
John Lubbock
#19. We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.
John Lubbock
#21. The world would be better and brighter if people were taught the duty of being happy as well as the happiness of doing their duty.
John Lubbock
#22. Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.
John Lubbock
#23. Life is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence.
John Lubbock
#24. In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.
John Lubbock
#25. Much certainly of the happiness and purity of our lives depends on our making a wise choice of our companions and friends. If our friends are badly chosen they will inevitably drag us down; if well they will raise us up.
Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury
#26. Try to realize all the blessings you have, and you will find perhaps that they are more than you suppose.
John Lubbock
#27. If you have the least doubt about it, do not marry.
John Lubbock
#28. Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.
John Lubbock
#29. Though it is a great mistake to make friends of the wicked and foolish, it is unwise to make enemies of them, for they are very numerous.
John Lubbock
#30. I cannot, however, but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the Duty of Happiness as well as the Happiness of Duty; for we ought to be as cheerful as we can, if only because to be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.
John Lubbock
#31. Even at the moment when the last page is turned, a great part of the book, its finer detail, is already vague and doubtful. A little later, after a few days or months, how much is really left of it?
Percy Lubbock
#32. If we are ever in doubt what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.
John Lubbock
#33. Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
John Lubbock
#35. A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind.
John Lubbock
#36. The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
John Lubbock
#37. We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.
John Lubbock
#39. To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.
John Lubbock
#40. We profit little by books we do not enjoy.
John Lubbock
#41. Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.
John Lubbock
#42. How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars.
John Lubbock
#43. Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has.
John Lubbock
#44. It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.
John Lubbock
#45. The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.
John Lubbock
#46. In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is wanting.
John Lubbock
#47. Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will make nothing.
John Lubbock
#48. Many a blessing has been recognized too late.
John Lubbock
#49. What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
John Lubbock
#50. Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.
John Lubbock
#51. In fiction there can be no appeal to any authority outside the book itself ... the thing has to look true, and that is all. It is not made to look true by simple statement.
Percy Lubbock
#52. Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.
John Lubbock
#53. Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.
John Lubbock
#54. A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.
John Lubbock
#55. All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind.
John Lubbock
#57. The veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance.
John Lubbock
#59. False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.
John Lubbock
#60. It always seems to be raining harder than it really is when you look at the weather through the window.
John Lubbock
#61. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.
John Lubbock
#62. Many different substances, as distinct to the practiced eye as stone and wood, go to the making of a novel, and it is necessary to see them for what they are.
Percy Lubbock
#63. Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
John Lubbock
#64. Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
John Lubbock
#65. A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
John Lubbock
#66. A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
John Lubbock
#67. A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.
John Lubbock
#68. Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them
John Lubbock
#69. The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.
John Lubbock
#70. Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.
John Lubbock
#71. Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.
John Lubbock
#72. It is sad, indeed, to see how man wastes his opportunities. How many could be made happy, with the blessings which are recklessly wasted or thrown away.
John Lubbock
#73. Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.
John Lubbock
#74. When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.
John Lubbock
#75. Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of surprise, if some day when I am alone in the woods one of the trees were to speak to me.
John Lubbock
#76. Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.
John Lubbock
#77. Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
John Lubbock
#78. Time is a trust, and for every minute of it you will have to account.
John Lubbock
#79. Here are the three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answer: Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly? Our education ought to help us to answer these questions.
John Lubbock
#80. Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
John Lubbock
#81. When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air.
John Lubbock
#82. Happy indeed is the naturalist: to him the seasons come round like old friends; to him the birds sing: as he walks along, the flowers stretch out from the hedges, or look up from the ground, and as each year fades away, he looks back on a fresh store of happy memories.
John Lubbock
#83. Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
John Lubbock
#84. Exercise of the muscles keeps the body in health, and exercise of the brain brings peace of mind.
John Lubbock
