Red Wing Blackbird Quotes

#1. While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time.

Thorstein Veblen

#2. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not embittered theological rancor.

Edward Gibbon

#3. Jackson's father said she was built like Marilyn Monroe and had the temperament of Maureen O'Hara. The man was a prophet for sure.

Carolyn Brown

#4. Man is the only animal to borrow tools.

Tim Allen

#5. By itself, 1 Corinthians 15 just wouldn't mean much. He wants the appearances of 1 Corinthians 15:3-11 to be read as if they had in parentheses after them 'See Luke 24; Matthew 28; John 21.'

Robert M. Price

#6. Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Bertolt Brecht

#7. I am pleased the Lord made my skin Black. I wish He had made it thicker.

Curt Flood

#8. The spirit that emerged outside a Mafia-run bar in 1969 became the pulse of the gay community and inspired not just an annual parade but ways to express gay pride in individual lives.
Stonewall happens every day.

Ann Bausum

#9. This was a big country needing big men and women to live in it, and there was no place out here for the frightened or the mean.

Louis L'Amour

#10. If you're always at the head of the class, then you're in the wrong class.

John C. Maxwell

#11. History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.

Tim Pawlenty