A. D. Gordon Quotes

If people want to pigeon hole you then just view it as an opportunity to prove them wrong and show that you are different to what they think you are.

There is no more important issue than restoring the protection of the law to pre-natal infants.

Ask me. I'm a cow expert.

You don't come into cooking to get rich.

People pay to see others believe in themselves.

Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.

I think most people can do a whole lot more if they just try.

Bebop is the music of the future (as soon as they learn how to play it).

People are looking for stability in a shaky world. They want something they can get hold of that's firm and sure and an anchor in the midst of all of this instability in which they're living.

Every morning you have a choice. Are you going to be a positive thinker or a negative thinker? Positive thinking will energize you.

If you do not choose the kingdom of God, it does not matter what you choose instead.

You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something.

The greatest job that any mother will ever do will be in nurturing, teaching, lifting, encouraging and rearing her children in righteousness and truth. None other can adequately take her place.

Gratitude is a sign of maturity...Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others.

When an individual is motivated by great and powerful convictions of truth, then he disciplines himself, not because of the demands of the church, but because of the knowledge within his heart

Limitless is your potential. Magnificent is your future.

Racing is not what I like to do; it's winning.

As I get older, my appreciation for wine has just increased. I fell in love with wine through my travels, but knowing what the wine country is all about definitely makes it my own.

For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain

I did have an occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many flights of them, they were of different sizes, flying in fighter formation, generally from east to west over Europe.

One negative person can create a miserable office environment for everyone else.

If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.

Grips and electricians have done more to help me shoot good movies than any other craft.

In our family, you don't get a childhood. We're too busy trying to dominate the world.

I am well aware that a chef is only as good as his last meal.

...A fuel-less flame is nothing but a wraith, However wrought, if unsustained by passion.

Your heart has a little empty corner. You won't even know I'm there -- I'll be very quiet.

Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.

I never got really good at hockey.

One thing a leader does is to remove the stigma of mistakes.

In nuclear war, all men are cremated equal.

Pray for the strength to walk the high road, which at times may be lonely but which will lead to peace and happiness and joy supernal.

As you walk the road of life, be careful of your friends. They can make you or break you.

A truly educated man never ceases to learn.

In airplanes you have a choice between chocolate and vanilla. One year could be vanilla or it could be chocolate. I don't attach any relevance to which one.

My mum doesn't enjoy sometimes listening to me tell staff off, and I say to my mum, it's a kitchen, not a hair-dressing salon.

A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life.

In any situation, location is crucial.

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

Please don't nag yourself with thoughts of failure. Do not set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. Simply do what you can do, in the best way you know, and the Lord will accept of your effort.

It's worth paying attention to the roles that are sort of dictated to us and that we don't have to fit into those roles. We can be anybody we wanna be.

Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small.

Women who make a house a home make a far greater contribution to society than those who command large armies or stand at the head of impressive corporations.

Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.

Everything we are afraid to try, all our unfulfilled dreams, constitute a limitation on what we are and could become.

Quiet talk is the language of love. It is the language of peace. It is the language of God.

Let your first interest be in your home. The baby you hold in your arms will grow quickly as the sunrise and the sunset of the rushing days.

We often have to lose what we thought we wanted to find what God wants for us

The lack of perfection, that's the hardest quality of all, because you're fighting your instincts. You're trained to want to do things perfectly.

Conversations I have had with school principals and students lead me to the same conclusion-that...there is an evil and growing habit of profanity and the use of foul and filthy language.