Shropshire England Quotes

#1. Good night; ensured release, Imperishable peace, Have these for yours. * While sky and sea and land And earth's foundations stand And heaven endures. *These three lines are on the tablet over Housman's grave in the parish church at Ludlow, Shropshire, England

A.E. Housman

#2. I'm not musical myself.

Callie Khouri

#3. So perhaps, it occurs to Billy, this is the whole point of civilization, the eating of beautiful meals and the taking of decorous dumps, in which case he is for it, having had a bellyful of the other way.

Ben Fountain

#4. Taureans are stubborn as hell. They never want to tell you what sign they are ... But underneath that tough Taurus hide beats the heart of a hopeless romantic.

Armistead Maupin

#5. The wheel [migration] has been spinning and spinning and spinning. Wouldn't it be nice to imagine a world where that circle stops spinning in that crazy way? Because that's a huge wheel that's crushing people's lives, real people's lives, families.

Ruben Martinez

#6. Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.

Samuel Johnson

#7. I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.

Rosa Parks

#8. Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.

Charlotte Forten Grimke

#9. You could power America with renewables from a technical and economic standpoint. The biggest obstacles are social and political - what you need is the will to do it.

Mark Z. Jacobson

#10. The artwork had very little to do with the thought process, and the writing too, for that matter. What happens, happens, and it happens outside the brain.

Jules Feiffer

#11. I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.

Mark Twain

#12. Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, and follow Him more fully.

J.C. Ryle

#13. Statisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops.

P.G. Wodehouse

#14. My fellow citizens, the state of our city is strong.

Thomas Menino