Quotes

I notice that everyone whose for abortion has been born.- Ronald Reagan

'Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.' ~Abraham Lincoln

'Most people don't expect you to understand what we're going to tell you in this book. And even if you understand, they don't expect you to care. And even if you care, they don't expect you to do anything about it. And even if you do something about it, they don't expect it to last.' ~Alex and Brett Harris in "Do Hard Things"

'Be the change you want to see in the world.'

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. It must be fought for." -Ronald Reagan

"The government's view of the economy can be summed up in three short phrases. If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it." -Ronald Reagan

Government is not best unless it is limited

I think that is one of his quotes or something like that

I'm not sure if anyone has put this one down yet:
“Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.”

And a few more:
“Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.”

“Some of you may remember that in my early days, I was sort of a bleeding heart liberal. Then I became a man and put away childish ways.”

“You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by the way he eats jelly beans.”

Here's a great one by a guy named Sam Ewing:

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."

"LIKE"

lol that last one is funny

Lol

'I do not know what my future holds. But I do know who holds my future.'~Tim Tebow :)

There once was a poet from Rome
who lived by the writing of poems.
But try as he might
he never could quite
get the last line to rhyme with the rest of them.
-Anonymous I think

Great quotes, AstronomerLeah! :) Now here is something like what Margaret Eddy posted:

There once was a man from Hong Kong
Whose poems were always too long.
When asked why this was,
He said, "It's because,
No matter how hard I try, the last line always seems to go on and on and on… :D

“When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone" -Winston Churchill

PLEASE BIBLE BEE PEOPLE FIGURE OUT WHAT YOU WANT AND THEN LEAVE IT THAT WAY!!!

I love the Bible Bee, by the way.

What r u talking about? Lol :)

(if you are reading this post you have to imagine that we are on the Bible Bee forums instead of "quotes")
The Bible Bee!
They (meaning whoever is in charge) keep changing the number of verses. Every year they have changed the number of verses either at local or nation level or both. Are they trying to get a bunch of kids to memorize a few verses or a few kids to memorize a bunch of verses? A couple years ago it looked like the latter, but at the moment I'm inclined to think they are trying to do both. I don't mind if they are, just as long as they leave it that way and stop changing their mind. I know they have a vision for having kids memorize God's word, and I love that they have that vision, but the time has come for that vision to have a few more set details.

I get u now!! I totally agree that they should have a set number… (I think it should be more that 50, hint, hint) lol

"Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?" -Corrie ten Boom

I like that :D

"You may lose political battles, but you will never lose the Lord." - Former Vice President Dan Quayle

“If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.” - Ronald Reagan

"I believe that the most essential element of our defense of freedom is our insistence on speaking out for religious liberty." - Ronald Reagan

"Some people criticized me for bringing up God and prayer at the Prayer Breakfast. I mean it was a PRAYER breakfast, right?" - Dr. Ben Carson

:) I thought it was neat, too! It was in the 2011 Sword Study.

@BaerGenJ- great quotes!

Lol nice quotes everyone! :)

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”

• C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”

• C.S. Lewis

Lol! :)

"Is what you're living for worth dying for?"

That is an excellent quote thanks for sharing it, it was very encouraging.

"…If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity."

-C.S. Lewis

Excellent quote:) I think all too often I wish for life to be comfortable and easy.

@biblebee and Jordan- those are both awesome quotes!!

I know this is kind of an old post, but I LOVE JP quotes, especially ones from Eddy. =D

"HEEEELLLLLPPPPP!!!!!! We're under attack!!!"

"For a moment there, I was wondering if there were cactuses in Heaven."

"I have that feeling…"
"You're hungry?"
"No, the other feeling"

"Before we can pray, 'Lord, Thy Kingdom come,' we must be willing to pray, 'My Kingdom go.' " ~ Alan Redpath

"God encourages us to ask as freely for the impossible as for the possible since to Him all difficulties are the same size- less than Himself." ~ J. Oswald Sanders

"Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer." ~ John Bunyan

"There is a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers and praying." ~ John G. Lake

Wow! Thanks for the quotes, Rosie. Those are really good! I really like quotes from John Bunyan! I've never heard of the other three men, though I have heard of the first quote before :) Thanks for sharing!

Since I always enjoy reading books/things by John Bunyan, here are a few more quotes by him:

"In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

"He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day"

"Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.”

"We don't want any adventures, THANK YOU!"-Bilbo Baggins- The Hobbit

Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me?”
-C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

The most pleased of the lot was the other lion who kept running about everywhere pretending to be very busy but really in order to say to everyone he met, "Did you hear what he said? Us Lions. That means him and me. Us Lions. That's what I like about Aslan. No side, no stand-off-ishness. Us Lions. That meant him and me." At least he went on saying this till Aslan had loaded him up with three dwarfs, one dryad, two rabbits, and a hedgehog. That steadied him a bit.”
-C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

I really like the quotes you shared, Bethany- especially the second one! That is something I will think about when I am struggling to getting up to have my time with the Lord each morning. :)

"It is not lost time to wait upon God." ~Hudson Taylor

He says 'Good morning' not 'THANK YOU'. :) BTW- I saw that seen. :)

Excellent quote by Hudson Taylor, Rosie! Thanks for sharing! I did a report on him for school awhile ago – very interesting and godly man…and has some wonderful quotes! :)

"Blunt the knives, bend the forks,"- Kili

"Smash the bottles and burn the corks!"-Fili( I think…..)

"Chip the glasses and crack the plates!
Blunt the knives and bend the forks!
That's what Bilbo Baggins hates–
Smash the bottles and burn the corks!

Cut the cloth and tread on the fat!
Pour the milk on the pantry floor!
Leave the bones on the bedroom mat!
Splash the wine on every door!

Dump the crocks in a boiling bowl;
Pound them up with a thumping pole;
And when you've finished, if any are whole,
Send them down the hall to roll!

That's what Bilbo Baggins hates!
So, carefully! carefully with the plates!"

–the Dwarves

Here's a rather silly, nonsensical song from "The Fellowship of the Ring":

"Hey! Come merry dol! derry dol! My darling!
Light goes the weather-wind and the feathered starling.
Down along under Hill, shining in the sunlight,
Waiting on the doorstep for the cold starlight,
There my pretty lady is, River-woman's daughter,
Slender as the willow-wand, clearer than the water.
Old Tom Bombadil water-lilies bringing
Comes hopping home again. Can you hear him singing?
Hey! Come merry dol! derry dol! and merry-o,
Goldberry, Goldberry, merry yellow berry-o!
Poor old Willow-man, you tuck your roots away!
Tom's in a hurry now. Evening will follow day.
Tom's going home again water-lilies bringing.
Hey! Come derry dol! Can you hear me singing?"

–Tom Bombadil

Yes it is Fili that says 'smash the bottles and burn the corks!'
U had a few wrong lines in there…

Blunt the knives and bend the forks!
Smash the bottles and burn the corks!
Chip the glasses and crack the plates!
That's what Bilbo Baggins hates

Cut the cloth and trail the fat!
Leave the bones on the bedroom mat!
Pour the milk on the pantry floor!

Splash the wine on every door!

Dump the crocks in a boiling bowl;
Pound them up with a thumping pole;
And when you've finished, if they are whole,
Send them down the hall to roll!

That's what Bilbo Baggins hates!
Haha!

Hey, I got that whole thing straight from the book; I was looking at it as I was typing it! :D

Oh, well the movie version is a little different, I watched the seen on Utube. Lol :)

The Misty Mountains Song was the BEST!

Far over the misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away ere break of day
To seek the pale enchanted gold.

The dwarves of yore made mighty spells,
While hammers fell like ringing bells
In places deep, where dark things sleep,
In hollow halls beneath the fells.

For ancient king and elvish lord
There many a gleaming golden hoard
They shaped and wrought, and light they caught
To hide in gems on hilt of sword.

On silver necklaces they strung
The flowering stars, on crowns they hung
The dragon-fire, in twisted wire
They meshed the light of moon and sun.

Far over the misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away, ere break of day
To claim our long-forgotten gold.

Goblets they carved there for themselves
And harps of gold; where no man delves
There lay they long, and many a song
Was sung unheard by men or elves.

The pines were roaring on the height,
The winds were moaning in the night.
The fire was red, it flaming spread;
The trees like torches blazed with light.

The bells were ringing in the dale
And men looked up with faces pale;
The dragon’s ire more fierce than fire
Laid low their towers and houses frail.

The mountain smoked beneath the moon;
The dwarves they heard the tramp of doom.
They fled their hall to dying fall
Beneath his feet, beneath the moon.

Far over the misty mountains grim
To dungeons deep and caverns dim
We must away, ere break of day,
To win our harps and gold from him!

Yep–by far the best! :)

Where do y'all find the quotes that you post hear (the serious ones, that is)? I enjoy reading them and am planning on starting a little collection of good quotes that I find/hear. Thanks.

Hey Bethany! :D How are you?

Well, we got most of ours from the Fellowship of the Ring movie, and the Hobbit movie and book.

@Rachel – Good. Taking a break from organizing my room. Hard work! :)

@Person with always changing usernames – I have no words for your comment. :D