S.L. Jennings Quotes

God put this game last, and it's just like putting a cherry on top of your Sundae.

We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago.

I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.

I can't relax and sink back in the couch and watch 'Jeopardy!' the way I used to.

I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.

I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours.

Knowing lots of answers but being a millisecond slow on the buzzer is indeed very frustrating.

For some reason the most devoted mapheads seem to be kids.

I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.

If youre a vegan who ran a marathon & got your dogs from a shelter, how do you decide which thing to wedge into the conversation first?

Twitter makes you a comedian in the same way that digital cameras make you a photographer

Sure I have a cell-phone, so I don't have to remember everyone's number anymore, but that really wasn't a core part of my brain.

If it's on the Internet, then it's gotta be true.

I have always loved maps.

The seeds that we speed into life to be trees, will soon become fallen if thier roots aren't deep.

The past is beautiful / like the darkness between the fireflies.

I am really concerned about all of the chemicals. Global warming is another huge one, but the amount of chemicals being used in like laundry detergents and fertilizers is concerning.

The increase in chemicals and the increase in technology, like wi-fi and cell phone use that's going through our bodies all of the time is something that is big on my radar.

Meditation is the one thing I do every day - meditate, pray. I do reading in the morning and try to center myself. I play music every day because that is very centering.

I like having a song in my head that's never been heard and then going into a studio and recording it and hearing it exist in the world. It's a magical part. Filled with wonder.

A unique, personal music that lights up the stage with its joy and enthusiasm.

There's a whole industry of conservatives saying, 'Ah, it's those damn liberals,' and a whole group of liberals saying, 'It's all those damn conservatives.'.

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

The risk of sudden death is miniscule, overstating this risk is not going to stop them from taking the drug.

Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.

And once again the government has failed to get the kind of cooperation from the relatives that might allow the case of this young boy to end in a civilized manner that is best for him.

Do you think in many ways, sir, you're the victim of circumstance now?

The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November.

Being with my kids is really important to me, being a good dad and being around a lot.

You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever.

The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one's country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.

Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.

When I find a man who is not willing to pay his share of the burden of the government which protects him, I find a man who is unworthy to enjoy the blessings of a government like ours.

The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.

Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.

If there is no God there is no hereafter. When, therefore, one drives God out of the universe he closes the door of hope upon himself.

When we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity by trying to show what we will do if we are wrong.

If it weren't for the lawyers we wouldn't need them.

Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.

A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.

Real estate is the best investment for small savings. More money is made from the rise in real estate values than from all other causes combined.

That is the one thing in my public career that I regret--my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.

The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.

We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.

We have our thoughts, our hopes, our fears, and yet we know that in a moment a change may come over any one of us that will convert a living, breathing human being into a mass of lifeless clay.

This nation is able to legislate for its own people on every question, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth.

Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?

Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion.

Do not love these gardens if you despise the dirt.

Failure is the secret to success because doing it wrong is apart of doing it right.