A.C.H. Smith Quotes

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.

Time management is only a set of skills and tools to help us more efficiently control the eventsour our lives.

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.

You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.

Climate is an angry beast and we are poking at it with sticks

Ham with mustard is a meal of glory

Texans ignore "better," long ago forgot the useless word "good." Everything in Texas is "best."

Who can't like pigs? They're wonderful creatures! I've always liked pigs.

I have always taken the view that one should never hold against a man anything he says after twelve o'clock at night or after a glass or two of anything.

Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.

It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually.

It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin.

Everybody need a partner to stand right by their side. Not only down for the good times. But also down through the bad times.

I find that every soul that has travelled on this highway of holiness for any length of time, has invariably cut loose from its old moorings.

A mouse can be just as dangerous as a bullet or a bomb.

The best piece of advice that I have ever received is from my mom. And she said, "Do you, boo boo." That is forever going to be the best advice.

If we each get on a treadmill right now, one of two things is going to happen... either you're going to get off first or I am going to die. Period.

I don't want to be an icon. I want to be an idea. I want to represent possibilities.

Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard

History has never seen Emmitt Smith. I don't care what has come before me. That's why they call it history you create new history.

I’m not afraid to take a swing and miss.

We have somehow deluded ourselves into thinking that wealth is wisdom

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

The future's another country, man... And I still ain't got a passport.

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...

Make rules and follow rules as needed, but don't focus on riles. Focus on faith. Focus on grace. Focus on Jesus.

We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.

My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.

Success works as a cycle - growth and contraction, balancing and unbalancing - all while you're encountering hurdles that get higher and higher over time.

Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.

Faith is the subtle chain which binds us to the infinite.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship.

When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.

I just love to play and I get a chance to play with other musicians and I jump on it.

But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me.

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

When you create art, the world has to wait.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.

To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.

Placing blame in marriage is like saying, 'Your side of the boat is sinking.'

I always say I'm Catholic - but a cultural Catholic. I wouldn't say I'm a spiritual person, although I pray every day.

Oh. To be filled with goodness then shattered by goodness, so beautifully mosaically fragmented by such shocking goodness.

Good kitchen equipment is expensive, but most items last a lifetime and will pay for themselves over and over again

Beware the man who only has one gun. He probably knows how to use it!

Life is much larger than how we image it, always, but society can be constricting in ways.