Upper Midwest Sayings

#1. Time steals away without any inconvenience.

Michel De Montaigne

#2. The quiet life is by no means the greatest life. Some characters can only reach the highest standard of spirituality by the disturbings or displacings in the order of God's providence.

F.B. Meyer

#3. any city or town in the Upper Midwest that's known more for what it used to make than what it makes now.

Anne Trubek

#4. But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.

Allen Tate

#5. Knowledge is constructed, not transferred

Peter Senge

#6. The future of a country doesn't depend on its wealth but on its education.

Debasish Mridha

#7. I'm not saying it never occurred to me to want to write a masterpiece, but I really doubt I could.

Lucy Hawking

#8. The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

George Balanchine

#9. People are in the dark, they don't know what to do I had a little lantern, oh but it got blown out too. I'm reaching out my hand. I hope you are too. I just want to be in the dark with you. - GREG BROWN, "IN THE DARK WITH YOU" T

Neil Gaiman

#10. Just to be clear I don't want to get out without a broken heart. I indend to leave this life so shattered there's gonna have to be a thousand seperate heavens for all of my flying parts.

Andrea Gibson

#11. The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.

Al Franken

#12. Subtitled it 'Everything you Always Wanted to Know About Driving Out to Remote Locations in the Upper Midwest to Find your Childhood Imaginary Friend but Were Afraid to Ask.

Wendy McClure

#13. Intelligence and the spirit of adventure can be combined to create new energies, and out of these energies may come exciting and rewarding new prospects.

Norman Cousins

#14. All forces are a deterrent to and would be employed in a general war. Most of our forces could be employed in a limited war, if required

Thomas S. Gates Jr.

#15. The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho.

Harmon Killebrew

#16. A good man's life is never quite ended; something of it always remains to touch and illuminate other lives.

Edward Higgins White

#17. Prayer thrives in the atmosphere of true devotion.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#18. Really, why? You're a household name, you still have a fear of public speaking?" "Well, I am human. Just because I'm a household name doesn't mean anything. It actually makes things even worse in my opinion.

India T. Norfleet