Top 25 Tom Mccall Quotes
#1. You all know I have terminal cancer-and I have a lot of it. But what you may not know is that stress induces its spread and induces its activity. Stress may even bring it on. Yet stress is the fuel of the activist.
Tom McCall
#2. Oregon is demure and lovely, and it ought to play a little hard to get. And I think you'll be just as sick as I am if you find it is nothing but a hungry hussy , throwing herself at every stinking smokestack that's offered.
Tom McCall
#4. This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life.
Tom McCall
#6. Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it's my responsibility to make it better.
Tom McCall
#7. Faith is a really important part of my life and inspires me in all facets of my life, including my songwriting and my singing.
Vusi Mahlasela
#8. I don't like anybody or anything, said Lucinda.
Yes, you do;
you like horses to ride, and dresses to wear.
Anthony Trollope
#9. Angels and demons were identical
interchangeable archetypes
all a matter of polarity. The guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer.
Dan Brown
#10. So, if we decrease the use of carbon dioxide, are we not taking away plant food from the atmosphere?
John Shimkus
#11. If they'll have me and the show does well, I could do this another two or three years.
George Peppard
#12. The solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be a disease, and abondoned efforts to treat alcoholics simply by locking them up.
Tom McCall
#13. I honestly didn't think miracles could ever come from my broken pieces, and I was disabled in fear that my dreams would always remain as dreams. Don't give up on you. Don't give up on God. Don't give up on love.
Nick Vujicic
#14. Oregon is an inspiration. Whether you come to it, or are born to it, you become entranced by our state's beauty, the opportunity she affords, and the independent spirit of her citizens.
Tom McCall
#16. Stories twist and turn and grow and meet and give birth to other stories. Here and there, one story touches another, and a familiar character, sometimes the hero, walks over the bridge from one story into another.
Marcus Sedgwick
#17. You and I shouldn't claim we love Oregon more than anyone else, but that we love Oregon as much as anyone. Our thoughts today, and our deliberations to come, must spring from our determination to keep Oregon lovable and to make it even more livable.
Tom McCall
#18. The interests of Oregon for today and in the future must be protected from the grasping wastrels of the land. We must respect another truism - that unlimited and unregulated growth, leads inexorably to a lowered quality of life.
Tom McCall
#19. Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.
Tom McCall
#20. It just seems so fundamental to me. I'm able to marry the person I wanted to marry. That's the fundamental human imperative. Those of us who have been lucky enough should expand these rights to others.
Chelsea Clinton
#21. We want you to visit our State of Excitement often. Come again and again. But for heaven's sake, don't move here to live. Or if you do have to move in to live, don't tell any of your neighbors where you are going.
Tom McCall
#22. I donno, it's not impressive. Once I put ear plugs in and put a blind fold on for like 14 minutes and I did just fine.
Zach Braff
#23. I don't know if I want to break my own record. I think I would rather leave it as it is.
Mark McGwire
#24. If the salmon and steelhead are running, then as far as I am concerned, God knows that all is well in His worldthe health of the environment is good if the salmon and steelhead are around. It is that simple.
Tom McCall
#25. Speak your truth quietly & clearly; and listen to others, even the dull & ignorant; they too have their story.
Max Ehrmann
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