Uncle Ben Quotes

#1. I'll spend my first year on the Wall emptying chamber pots if I keep Uncle Ben waiting any longer.

George R R Martin

#2. Uncle Remus, who said to Uncle Ben, You're a credit to your rice. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#3. They ran. They stayed warmer that way and running seemed to be the right way to measure their love for Uncle Ben. They wanted to hear their breath, and their feet stamping the ground. They wanted to feel their lungs working, and their hearts.

Roddy Doyle

#4. I'm pretty clear about what I'm capable of doing.

Nico Muhly

#5. The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that.

Ben Nicholson

#6. The unknowable is the beauty, the meaning, the aspiration, the goal. Because of the unknowable, life means something. When everything is known, then everything is flat. You will be fed up, bored.

Osho

#7. The wizard [of Oz] says look inside yourself and find self. God says look inside yourself and find [the Holy Spirit]. The first will get you to Kansas.
The latter will get you to heaven.
Take your pick.

Max Lucado

#8. For me, the hero's journey is not the voyage from weakness to strength. The true hero's journey is the voyage from strength to weakness.

John Green

#9. In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled life and walking one's way to godliness. The Hindu sadhu, the pilgrims of Compostela walking past their sins, the circumambulators of the Buddhist kora, the haj.

Robyn Davidson

#10. Gray hairs signify old age, not wisdom.
Muscles signify strength, not health.
Laughter signifies amusement, not joy.
Weeping signifies pain, not weakness.
Smiling signifies courteousness, not love.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#11. The best of life is always ahead, always further along.

William Mulock

#12. There is no use of simply acquiring titles or amassing wealth if one has no self-respect and scientific knowledge .

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

#13. Running removes us briefly from the fragmentation and depersonalization of the digital world

Amby Burfoot

#14. You've got a problem. Part of what you own isn't yours. It belongs to Uncle Sam. May I show you how much belongs to Uncle Sam?

Ben Feldman

#15. Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

George Soros

#16. I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in solitude ... the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe.

Gary Snyder

#17. Simple question,' Uncle Todd repeated. 'Do you deserve respect?'
'Yeah,' Dylan answered.
'Well, you're never deserving of any more respect in life than you give. I don't see you showing the world much respect. Until you show the world respect, the world won't respect you, and neither will I.

Ben Mikaelsen

#18. DEATH DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE.

Lindy Zart