Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Tinker

Peace is the right approach. War is the wrong approach.

Robert Fulghum

Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.

Javier Solana

Peace is more than the end of violence. Peace is more than just a cease-fire,

Jan Pronk

Peace is being jeopardized in the short run.

Ringo Starr

Peace and love! Peace and love! Peace and love!

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Ring out the thousand wars of old,/ Ring in the thousand years of peace.

Ron Johnson

Rest in Peace, Brother, you will be missed.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.

B. H. Liddell Hart

Vitality springs from diversity -- which makes for real progress so long as there is mutual toleration, based on the recognition that worse may come from an attempt to suppress differences than from acceptance of them. For this reason, the kind of peace that makes progress possible is best assured by the mutual checks created by a balance of forces-alike in the sphere of internal politics and of international relations.

Bianca Jagger

Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn't just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all.

Bernadette Devlin

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else

Alanis Morissette

I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]

Ben Elton

The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.

David Bowie

I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and the hippies. And I think we kind of wanted to go somewhere else.

P. J. O'Rourke

I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand.

Alec Baldwin

Never go with a hippie to a second location.

Adam Schiff

We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy.

Paul Saito

People like the serenity of walking through the gardens even when it's hot, even in the summer time.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens.

B. B. King

We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors.

Bill Shankly

If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.

Cecelia Ahern

It's like my garden, love. Everything grows. Including love. And with that growing everyday how can you expect missing her to ever fade away? Everything builds, including our ability to cope with it. That's how we keep going.

Bertrand Russell

I know a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were much consoled when they found he was planting trees in his garden.

Ken Thompson

THAT'S THE trouble with wildlife gardening. For so long it's been a refuge for anecdote and old wives' tales that get handed down and trotted out. No-one's had anything original to say about wildlife gardening for years.

Diane Setterfield

I am always happy up a ladder with a paintbrush in my hand. And I wish I had more time to spend in the garden - not least because I get good ideas for writing when I'm out there.

Thomas Hood

I can't do as much as I used to, but I can still grow a little corn, tomatoes and some cucumbers in my organic garden out back.