Quotes of: Old-country Keyword

Last night I made a thousand plans, but this morning I went my old way.

Chinese

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Greek

The quail waits for the stick; the idle loiterer about a place waits for a kick from an old boot.

South African

And I thought, y’know, I mean…this is crazy. I mean, the only thing that determines what country you belong to is where you happened to be born? What is a country, anyway? It’s not, y’know, “purple mountain’s majesty” or “fruited plai...

Indecision Now! A Libertarian Rage

The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like sticky plaster-dust. (House-cleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you h...

Spindle's End

Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor...

Life

This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the other destroys your soul. Cities and countries are as alive, as feeling, as fickle and uncertain as people. Their degrees of love...

Cities & Countries

This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the other destroys your soul. Cities and countries are as alive and feeling, as fickle and uncertain as people. Their degrees of love...

Cities & Countries

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whateve...

The Country of the Pointed Firs

It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country's regard for law is to notice what arms the officers of the law are carrying: in England it is little batons, in France swords, in many countries revolvers, and in Russia t...

The Curse Of The Wise Woman

To commit myself to do the whole will of God; to be able to invite God to look into my heart and to know that He will find there no opposition to His will, nothing but deep love and a real desire to serve Him--this is what it means to be a sanctified...

Holiness and High Country: Devotional Readings for Every Day

Rebels usually have something to complain about, and if they don't they make it up. All too often the really disadvantaged are in no position to rebel; they just suffer quietly.

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

But as a family physician, I'd had the opportunity to come in contact with people of all ages, and through the years I've noticed a curious parallel: children and the elderly both have the same kind of faith.

Appointments with Heaven: The True Story of a Country Doctor's Healing Encounters with the Hereafter

Lincoln did not admire those who think it is a mark of sophistication to sneer at patriotism. He believed that God has a will for a country and that is honest man should rejoice in the effort to try to remake his country after the Divine pattern, ins...

Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership

A regime that can suspend or abrogate the constitution and run the country on its whims and caprice should be ashamed of bringing on its lips the word "law". It is like prescribing a punishment for adultery after raping the country. It is like saying...

If I Am Assassinated

I want to go to all the topless bars in America and try to sell every single one of them a roof.

I Want Two apply for a job at our country's largest funeral home, and then wear a suit and noose to the job interview.

I want to say something so embarrassing about September that even the leaves start blushing and turning red.

I Want Two apply for a job at our country's largest funeral home, and then wear a suit and noose to the job interview.

Why does death have to stop #love? It doesn’t stop people from voting in Chicago.

I Want Two apply for a job at our country's largest funeral home, and then wear a suit and noose to the job interview.

I want to be happy and sad at the same time. Yeah, I know it sounds sappy.

I Want Two apply for a job at our country's largest funeral home, and then wear a suit and noose to the job interview.

I want to write a book on sex. It will be filled with phrases like "Uuuhgh yeeeaaaah," and "Ooooh that's it," and "Whose hands are those?

I Want Two apply for a job at our country's largest funeral home, and then wear a suit and noose to the job interview.

I want the US government to dispense with all the “red tape,” and start using Caution tape.

I Want Two apply for a job at our country's largest funeral home, and then wear a suit and noose to the job interview.