Western Pennsylvania Sayings

#1. We do not want to comprehend that people may and do die of emotional pain, or to recognize the terror in ourselves when we cannot seem to help someone in despair
when our words are empty.

Jill Bialosky

#2. The despair doesn't last. Marie-Laure is too young and her father is too patient.

Anthony Doerr

#3. Why does the world dislike Russia? I do not think that we are unloved or considered to be ignorant.

Vladimir Putin

#4. We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

Voltaire

#5. A series of small but real accomplishments gives people the energy and confidence to continue. For instance, a person who wants to write a novel might resolve to write one sentence each day. Or a person who wants to start running might resolve to run for one minute.

Gretchen Rubin

#6. I am your original autodidact.

Doris Lessing

#7. Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

Walter Savage Landor

#8. Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.

B. Wayne Hughes

#9. The farmers of western Pennsylvania laid the foundation of the American whiskey industry.

Kate Hopkins

#10. If nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come, nothing is more harmful than an idea which is manipulated by motivated men. Rogues and crooks have ideas. So do ordinary folks. But intellectuals are meant to be a breed apart for the same reason rocks aren't gems.

Mohammad Badrul Ahsan

#11. All gambling is the telling of a fortune, but of a monstrously depleted fortune, empty of everything save one numerical circumstance, shorn of all such richness as a voyage across the water, a fair man that loves you, a dark woman that means you harm.

Rebecca West

#12. I am alive and I am alone in a land of so much space.

Sarah Crossan

#13. My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.

Tawni O'Dell

#14. Central and western Pennsylvania has one of the best workforces in the country and this will provide job training, new skills and additional resources for those trying to find a job.

Bill Shuster

#15. The warrior of light knows that everything around him - his victories, his defeats, his enthusiasm and his despondency - form part of his Good Fight.

Paulo Coelho

#16. I love bowl games. I really do. I like it more than the kids do. I grew up a poor kid in western Pennsylvania, and I went to Nebraska because I saw them play in the Orange Bowl and I wanted to play in a bowl game. I cherish the memories.

Barry Alvarez

#17. The knowledge of Christ which is produced by man's own cleverness and wisdom is not a rock that can stand firm.

Watchman Nee

#18. The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

Thomas Merton

#19. You may have noticed that Senator Obama's supporters have been saying some pretty nasty things about western Pennsylvania lately. And you know, I couldn't agree with them more.

John McCain

#20. At the age of 14, I ran away from home for four days and hitchhiked around western Pennsylvania and southern Ohio.

Michael Dirda

#21. In Pennsylvania, I love the Nemacolin Woodlands Resort in Farmington. It's a scenic area. We also enjoy visiting the Laurel Highlands in Western Pennsylvania. The mountains are really something to be seen, and it's a great area to be outside.

Troy Polamalu