Remond Quotes

#1. Like all terrible golfers, Dr. Remond Courtney believed that nothing was too extravagant for his game. He wore Arnold Palmer sweaters and Tom Watson spikes, and carried a full set of Jack Nicklaus MacGregors, including a six-wood that the Golden Bear himself couldn't hit if his life depended on it.

Carl Hiaasen

#2. Happy is the person who has learned the secret of being content with whatever life brings him, and has learned to rejoice in the
simple and beautiful things around him.

Billy Graham

#3. Buttercups, bright eyed and bold, hold their chalices of gold to catch the sunshine and the dew.

Julia Caroline Dorr

#4. Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of the oppressor?

Charles Lenox Remond

#5. I have only to speak for myself; to speak for freedom for myself; to determine for freedom for myself; and in doing so, I speak and determine for the freedom of every slave on every plantation, and for the fugitives on my right hand.

Charles Lenox Remond

#6. But the feeling of a limb as a sensory and motor part of oneself seems to be innate, built-in, hardwired - and this supposition is supported by the fact that people born without limbs may nonetheless have vivid phantoms in their place.4

Oliver Sacks

#7. Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.

Charles Lenox Remond

#8. He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of men and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime.

William Manchester

#9. We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people.

Charles Lenox Remond

#10. You can better embrace life, you can enjoy it more, when you are conscious that it will end. You bite life.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu