David McClure Brinkley Famous Quotes



A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.


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"There is no leveler like Christianity, but it levels by lifting all who receive it to the lofty table-land of a true character and of undying hope both for this world and the next."
Johathan Edwards

"Our American past always speaks to us with two voices the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him Citizens ask, What do they mean to us Historians are trained to seek the original meaning all of us want to know the present meaning."
Daniel J Boorstin

Live with men as if God saw you converse with God as if men heard you.
Seneca

"Preparation is not the enemy of success, but a dear friend. Be good to yourself and the favor will return."
Samuel Cunningham

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
Gilbert K Chesterton

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
William Ralph Inge

"When the mouth stumbles, it is worse than the foot."
African Proverb

"Miracles You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24 7, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn up the volume - snap... crackle... this just in, every person you talk to is a chance to change the world..."
Hugh Elliott

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
John Cotton Dana

Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Edmund Burke