Wilfred Grenfell Quotes

The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.

Wilfred Grenfell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: welsh
  • Birth: February 28, 1865 - October 9, 1940

Topics

ServiceEarthOthersRentPayRoom

In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.

Jerry Kramer

MyselfSeriouslyPatientNovember

When I lived in Minneapolis in my twenties, and my mom lived there, too, I used to take her 'storm chasing' - by which I mean I'd see a pulsing blob of radar on The Weather Channel and make her drive us toward the storm.

Jenna Blum

StormMomWeatherDriveMeanSee

I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy.

Andrew Greeley

ResponsibilityMeWorldEnjoySay

When I was at university, there was such a strong delineation between city kids and those who had grown up the suburbs. City kids were so at home in the world, in a way that suburban kids take years to catch up, if indeed they ever can.

Meg Rosoff

HomeCityWorldStrongWayUp

The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.

John Podhoretz

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The mainstream is generally garbage. Look at the heavily subsidized theaters.

Steven Berkoff

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Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.

Stone Gossard

TimePoliticsYouChoiceTricky

You know, I feel that God isn't going to put something in front of me that I can't deal with.

Lloyd Banks

GodMeFeelYouKnowGoing

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.

Chinua Achebe

LightSlaveryLiteratureBodyBad

While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together.

Bob Menendez

FamilyFaithCommunityFreedomThink

I told Warren if he mentions Prop. 13 one more time, he has to do 500 push-ups.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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I've had people tell me that I should just be sad and not joke around on Twitter, but they don't understand that joking and being deeply sad are very close to each other. I'll have a horrible memory that I find hysterical one day, and the next day I'll cry about it.

Perfume Genius

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