Bob Goff Quotes

Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three.

Bob Goff

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• The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • Hope
  • College

• I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Support
  • Trust
  • Said

• If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Books
  • Television
  • Scared

• Working in Birmingham for the first time was the best thing, especially as it was round the corner from my mum's house in Harborne!

  

  Kate Ashfield
  • Time
  • House
  • Best

• Through the program, they get the basics of what it takes to train.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • Train
  • Through
  • Basics

• It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Time
  • Work
  • Children

• My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Father
  • Right
  • Said

• Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.

  

  Carl D. Anderson
  • Great
  • Positive
  • Negative

• I have always tried my best to do what I thought was the right thing at the time.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Time
  • Best
  • Thought

• Whenever you hear news about jobless claims or the unemployment rate, you should translate that in your mind to one simple phrase: Stay in school.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Mind
  • School
  • Simple

• Mama was a looker,Lord, how she shined.Papa was a good'n,But the jealous kind.Papa loved Mama;Mama loved men.Mama's in the graveyard;Papa's in the pen.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Good
  • Men
  • She

• '...it is inappropriate for a public activist to wear a niqab, since people want to see you. The Islamic faith does not mandate wearing a niqab; it is just a social tradition.'

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • Faith
  • Islamic

• One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

  

  Emma Alice Margaret Asquith
  • Life
  • Strong

• If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is. (pg. 140)

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Up
  • War

• He puts his bones back on,Turning the clock back an hour.She knows flesh, that skin balloon,the unbound limbs, the boards,the roof, the removable roof.She is his selection, part time.You know the story too! Look,when it is over he places her,like a phone, back on the hook.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Time
  • She

• Mon triste coeur bave à la poupe.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud

• I grew up in a household where we talked politics a lot and argued politics a lot.

  

  Chris Hayes
  • Up

• Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.

  

  Carolina Herrera

• I first fell in love with comedy when I'd visit my granny as a kid. Trips to her house meant staying up late drinking Coca-Cola and watching 'Saturday Night Live'.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • Up
  • Live
  • House

• I don't work Sunday any more... The Sabbath is a very reasonable idea. Otherwise, you work yourself to death.

  

  Alan Furst
  • Work
  • Death
  • Sunday

• Father, thy hand Hath reared these venerable columns, thou Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down Upon the naked earth, and, forthwith, rose All these fair ranks of trees. They, in thy sun, Budded, and shook their green leaves in thy breeze, And shot towards heaven.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Father
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Death
  • Lies
  • Protect

• Hamm: What's he doing?(CLOV raises lid of NAGG's bin, stoops, looks into it. Pause.)Clov: He's crying.(He closes lid, straightens up)Hamm: Then he's living.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Up
  • Crying

• Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Death
  • Night
  • Heaven