There’s something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
BILL VAUGHANMost of us wait until we’re in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we’d wake up and say, “Anything I can do for You today, Lord?”
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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I’m an actor. And I guess I’ve done so many movies I’ve achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.
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In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
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How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.
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They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.
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Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
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Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
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On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.
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Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.
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A nation has character only when it is free.
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Most people – and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all – are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.
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The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.
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The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.
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Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It’s not about kids and their choices. It’s about parents and their choices.
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The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.
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When myth meets myth, the collision is very real.
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