William Buckland Quotes

#1. I think even if I was to go out there and win the Olympics, everyone's still going to remember the pre-race routine that I do and the video that went viral, so, y'know, that's alright for me.

Michelle Jenneke

#2. Value judgments have value only to the extent that they provoke opposition.

Marty Rubin

#3. Thus the great drama of universal life is perpetually sustained; and though the individual actors undergo continual change, the same parts are ever filled by another and another generation; renewing the face of the earth, and the bosom of the deep, with endless successions of life and happiness.

William Buckland

#4. To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful
and much easier.

Mark Twain

#5. [People] need to find words that can reconnect them with each other. That is the gift of good liturgy, yeah. We're not talking about fluffy stuff. We're talking about real life for people around the world. Our prayers should be said like the daily breath that gives us life.

Shane Claiborne

#6. Shall it any longer be said that a science [geology], which unfolds such abundant evidence of the Being and Attributes of God, can reasonably be viewed in any other light than as the efficient Auxiliary and Handmaid of Religion?

William Buckland

#7. No conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human species throughout the entire series of geological formations.

William Buckland

#8. Geology holds the keys of one of the kingdoms of nature; and it cannot be said that a science which extends our Knowledge, and by consequence our Power, over a third part of nature, holds a low place among intellectual employments.

William Buckland

#9. That which is beautiful is magnified by being shared with others.That which is painful is often moderated by being shared. Both are logical. -Spock

Alan Dean Foster

#10. Sometimes in life there are things to choose.
Even if it means the one you love you lose.
Sometimes it's a lesson you need to know.
That to pass the test the ones you love you let go.

Laqueisha Malone

#11. It is demonstrable from Geology that there was a period when no organic beings had existence: these organic beings must therefore have had a beginning subsequently to this period; and where is that beginning to be found, but in the will and fiat of an intelligent and all-wise Creator?

William Buckland

#12. The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the mighty revolutions and convulsions it has suffered.

William Buckland

#13. Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them, when fully understood, it will be found a potent and consistent auxiliary to it, exalting our conviction of the Power, and Wisdom, and Goodness of the Creator.

William Buckland

#14. The successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry.

William Buckland

#15. The days of the Mosaic creation are not to be strictly construed as implying the same length of time which is at present occupied by a single revolution of our globe, but PERIODS of a much longer extent.

William Buckland

#16. The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.

William Bennett

#17. Deep down I'm a very shallow person.

Charles Haughey

#18. The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.

Rumi

#19. The greatest heroes of the Normandy battlefield were the unarmed medics, whom snipers often shot at despite their Red Cross armbands.

Antony Beevor