Stuff
That I believe in. No, wait, scratch that. That I know.
“One-fifth of condom users become pregnant. One-third contract the HIV virus. And they [condoms] are zero percent effective against chlamidia.”-Lucas Heard
“It is impossible to maintain a civilization with 12 year olds having babies; with 15 year olds killing each other; with 17 year olds dying of AIDS; and with 18 year olds ending up with diplomas that they can’t even read.”-Newt Gingrich
“Things may come to those who wait, but only that left behind by those who hustle.”-Abraham Lincoln
“If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”-Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I would rather make my name than inherit it.”-W.M. Thackeray
“You see how picky I am about my shoes, and they only go on my feet.”-Alicia
Silverstone (Clueless)
This has nothing to do with shoes, so you’ll either have to
watch the movie to get it, or ask me in my guestbook, on my first page
“Comedy is acting out optimism.”-Robin Williams
“...when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual-Free at last, free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.”-MLK, Jr.
"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you."-Henry Ward Beecher
"If you lower your standards, then you deserve everything you get." -Thomas Meohn
"We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is somebody today."-Stacia Tauseher
"I may dissaprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."-Voltaire
"Remember, remember always, that all of us...are descended from immigrants and revolutionists."-Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Isn't it funny how everyone in favor of abortion has already been born?"-Patrick Murray
"And I no longer justify reasons for the way that I behave. I offer no apologies for the things that I believe and say and I like it that way. 'Cause I'm a real live woman."-Trish Yearwood
"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."-Abraham Lincoln
"The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any."-Fred Astaire
"All children wear the sign: 'I want to be important now.' Many of our juvenile delinquincy problems arise because nobody reads the sign."-Dan Pursuit
"This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him."-William Lyon Phelps.
"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."-Mark Twain
"Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time."-motto of the Baltimore Grotto
"A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the quality of his actions and the integrity of his intent. In the end, leaders are much like eagles...they don't flock, you find them one at a time."
"No reserve. No retreat. No regrets."-William Borden
"I want to be remembered as the girl who always smiled even when her heart was broken, and the one who could brighten up your day, even if she couldn't brighten her own."
"One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter."-James Earl Jones
"Our 40th president wore his title lightly, and it fit like a white Stetson."-George W. Bush
Teamwork
“We can’t all and some of us don’t. That’s all there is to it.” -Eeyore
“Where we go one, we go all.”-Jeff Bridges (White Squall)
“We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly, we shall hang separately-Benjamin Franklin
"The purpose of life is not to be happy-but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all."-Leo Rosten
The University of Tennessee
If you’ve been to my homepage, you’ll understand why this is a category.
“I’ve made up my mind and I don’t expect to look back. I am going to stay at the University of Tennessee.” -Peyton Manning
“2 Noble Laureats. 7 Rhodes Scholars. 6 Pulitzer Prizes. 10 Astronauts. We also play a little football.” -a T-shirt
“The National Champions are clad in Big Orange!”-John Ward
“Here, where the hills are high, Tennessee is calling on its Volunteers to give the state its first clear claim to national honors. Knoxville today is a perfect example of civil lunacy. Every suburb is a wing of an asylum.”-Henry McLemore
“All people watching TV need to see is the checkerboard, and they know that Tennessee is playing at home.”-Bud Ford
“Our band plays Rocky Top at least 20 times a game, though I’m sure our opponents would put that number closer to a hundred.”-Bud Ford
“You’ve always got to have a shred of hope.”-Spencer Riley
“Once they paint that orange on you, it never washes off.”-Harvey Robinson
"The Hill, as all the people for many miles 'round called it." -J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit)
"I mean, what does orange and white have to do with Tennessee?"
"You're not from around here, are you?" -TN lottery commercial
