
Top 24 Wilfred Grenfell Quotes
#1. My mind spun like the flywheel on an antique John Deere, merry-go-round during second-grade recess, hard spun roulette wheel.
Dennis Vickers
#3. I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich.
Wilfred Grenfell
#5. The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not 'to have and to hold' but "to give and serve."
Wilfred Grenfell
#6. She resisted the urge to run, only prey ran [and] Niko had no intention on becoming prey
Kayti Nika Raet
#7. Believe that others are better than you in the debths of their soul, although outwardly you may appear better than they.
Saint Augustine
#8. I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff.
Amy Poehler
#9. The Bible Belt, the religious South, is the section of the country that practiced slavery until the war made them give it up. They practiced segregation. They practiced lynchings. I don't see any great value in that.
John Shelby Spong
#10. I needed a whole heart once in my life. Is that so wrong?
Angela Morrison
#11. The knowledge of this marvelous period has made faith far easier from an intellectual standpoint, and has enabled us to be more patient in waiting to see the truth, not as now
Wilfred Grenfell
#12. History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.
Phyllis Schlafly
#13. You only got one life. You can't sit around waiting for your next life to begin.
Melanie Griffith
#14. Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.
Wilfred Grenfell
#15. Beware as you get the octopus on board. Suddenly he relaxes his grasp, and shhots out a jet of ink, which smarts considerably.
Wilfred Grenfell
#16. The word of God is the Christian soul's best weapon, and it is essential to have it with him always. In doubt it decides, in consultation it directs; in anxiety it reassures; in sorrow it comforts; in failure it encourages; in defense it protects; in offense it is mightier than the mighty.
Wilfred Grenfell
#17. Then he, Luke, Mace, Lee, Hank and Eddie (not to mention Tex and Duke) took off, each one wearing a scary-angry look on their face. In about ten minutes there was no more noise and they all came back with a shitload of confiscated fireworks.
Kristen Ashley
#18. How do you create something unknown?
Sam Messer
#19. I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to.
Wilfred Grenfell
#20. The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.
Wilfred Grenfell
#21. The privilege of prayer to me is one of the most cherished possessions, because faith and experience alike convince me that God himself sees and answers, and His answers I never venture to criticize. It is only my part to ask. If it were otherwise, I would not dare to pray at all.
Wilfred Grenfell
#22. Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.
Richard Stallman
#23. Lost in Hell,-Persephone,
Take her head upon your knee;
Say to her, My dear, my dear,
It is not so dreadful here.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#24. I met Rob in Austin, Texas. He was hitchhiking to California and I was driving to California, so it seemed like a perfect match. He had long blond hair and blue eyes and golden skin and so did I. It was like falling in love with myself.
Lorena Cassady
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