Tom Mccall Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Speak your truth quietly & clearly; and listen to others, even the dull & ignorant; they too have their story.

Max Ehrmann

#3. 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

#4. I don't know if I want to break my own record. I think I would rather leave it as it is.

Mark McGwire

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.

Tom McCall

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. The Messiah was born in a manger in Bethlehem.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. If they'll have me and the show does well, I could do this another two or three years.

George Peppard

#17. So, if we decrease the use of carbon dioxide, are we not taking away plant food from the atmosphere?

John Shimkus

#18. 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

#19. I don't like anybody or anything, said Lucinda.
Yes, you do;
you like horses to ride, and dresses to wear.

Anthony Trollope

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. The greatest life is to share, to sacrifice and to serve.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life.

Tom McCall

#24. Champions don't give up; they get up!

Sanjo Jendayi

#25. 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