George Rogers Clark Quotes

If a country were not worth protecting, it was not worth claiming.

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• What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Life
  • World
  • Why

• Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Balance
  • Sweet
  • Cooking

• For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • American
  • Future
  • Man

• If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Information

• I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Movie
  • Like
  • Brain

• In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Great
  • War
  • Together

• Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Deep
  • Winter
  • Roots

• Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Music
  • Living
  • Instruments

• People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • People
  • Famous
  • Act

• I worked with some directors, and it was really collaborative, and I was sort of writing with them. I was giving so many pieces of myself to their movies, I thought, 'It's about time I use my own voice for me, and establish my own voice.' So I knew I wanted to make films.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Giving

• God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • God
  • Want
  • Hands

• My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Father
  • Day
  • Mom

• I had auditioned for 'Saturday Night Live' two or three times before and never really saw myself there. I looked up to Belushi and Bill Murray and Aykroyd and I never saw myself as in their world.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Up
  • World
  • Live

• Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Wish
  • Question

• Del Piero is known for his sense of humour. He once joked that if Lippi does not convoke him to the World Cup in Germany, he would 'run him over with his car and sink his damn boat'.

  

  Alessandro Del Piero
  • World
  • Car
  • Boat

• Se me abre una puerta, entro y me hallo con cien puertas cerradas.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• When the storms of life come, if they come to me personally, to my family or to the world, I want to be strong enough to stand and be a strength to somebody else, be shelter for somebody else.

  

  Anne Graham Lotz
  • Life
  • World
  • Family

• At some point, there is going to be a terrorist diaspora out of Syria like we've never seen before.

  

  James Comey

• Apple's iTunes program was once the envy of the world. A combined digital music store and player, it could also sync your iPod. And it worked on both Mac and Windows. It was reasonably fast and very sure-footed.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • World
  • Music
  • Player

• The things that people won't totally accept come in all shapes and sizes and forms, and I can relate to that in my own youth.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Youth
  • Shapes

• Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

  

  Lisa See
  • Words
  • Books
  • River

• Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Man
  • Gold
  • Fetters

• If a country were not worth protecting, it was not worth claiming.

  

  George Rogers Clark
  • Country
  • Protecting
  • Claiming