Earl Hamner Jr Quotes

I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that. ~ Earl Hamner, Jr.

If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives. ~ Earl Hamner, Jr.

Trust in God and go to church. ~ Earl Hamner, Jr.

The nice thing about life," said Miss Etta, "is you never know when there's going to be a party. ~ Earl Hamner, Jr.

Without courage, honor, compassion, pity, love and sacrifice, as William Faulkner pointed out, we know not of love, but lust. We debase our audience. But we can ennoble and enrich our viewers and ourselves in our journey through this good time, this precious time, this great and wonderful experience we call life. ~ Earl Hamner, Jr.

Every child must have chores to do. It gives them dignity in work and the joy of labor. ~ Earl Hamner Jr.

A mountain has no need for people, but people do need mountains. We go to them for their beauty, for the exhilaration of standing closer to mysterious skies, for the feeling of triumph that comes from having labored to reach a summit. ~ Earl Hamner, Jr.

A man, well, he'll walk right into Hell with both eyes open. But even the devil can't fool a dog. ~ Earl Hamner, Jr.

There is a difference between the Holy Ghost and the gift of the Holy Ghost. Cornelius received the Holy Ghost before he was baptized, which was the convincing power of God unto him of the truth of the Gospel, but he could not receive the gift of the Holy Ghost until after he was baptized. Had he not [been baptized], the Holy Ghost which convinced him of the truth of God, would have left him. ~ Joseph Smith Jr.

Even if our motives are presently misunderstood. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of discrimination though its badge of degradation does not mark them. It corrupts their lives, frustrates their opportunities and withers their education. In one sense it is more evil for them because it has confused so many by prejudice that they have supported their own oppressors. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

It was his experience that life worked under the same guidelines as a capitalistic society. In order to get what you wanted, it was usually necessary to give up something in return. Sometimes gaining what you defined as everything meant losing what you most needed. ~ Roy L. Pickering Jr.

When I was in high school. I was considered really weird and strange, and people kind of kept their distance. ~ Freddie Prinze, Jr.

Whatever you are waiting for won't come to you; you have to go for it. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

It is never right to compromise with dishonesty. ~ Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

In spite of their gross theological error, charismatics demand acceptance within mainstream evangelicalism. And evangelicals have largely succumbed to those demands, responding with outstretched arms and a welcoming smile. In so doing, mainstream evangelicalism has unwittingly invited an enemy into the camp. The gates have been flung open to a Trojan horse of subjectivism, experientialism, ecumenical compromise, and heresy. Those who compromise in this way are playing with strange fire and placing themselves in grave danger. ~ John F. MacArthur Jr.

I hope that not one of them ever wanna even think about boxing. ~ Roy Jones Jr.

The good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

#1487: Hug a cow. ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life's ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy. ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Self-preservation is an important thing to me. ~ Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

He call us to obey, not because He needs us but because He knows we need Him. ~ John F. MacArthur Jr.

Beware how you take hope from another human being. - Oliver Wendell Holms Jr., ~ Max Allan Collins

When you smile and no one else is around, you definitely mean it. ~ Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

Did you ever look into the personalities of male cooks, Army, logging camp, etc.? They're all supposed to be crazy, incomprehensible, contemptible. And angry. The act of feeding adult males seems to have strange personality effects. ~ James Tiptree Jr.

May those principles, which were so honorably and nobly defended, namely, the Constitution of our land, by our fathers, be established forever. ~ Joseph Smith Jr.

God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence" (1 Corinthians 1:27-29). ~ John F. MacArthur Jr.

We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Complex regulation in place of simple-rules capitalism disrupts market processes and corrupts business incentives. ~ Robert L. Bradley, Jr.

My narcotic was what had got me through the war; it was an ability to let my emotions be stirred by only one thing - my love for Helga. This concentration of my emotions on so small an area had begun as a young lover's happy illusion, had developed into a device to keep me from going insane during the war, and had finally become the permanent axis about which my thoughts revolved ~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

If you spend an extra hour each day of study in your chosen field you will be a national expert in that field in five years or less. ~ Earl Nightingale

When I'm not on the road, I try to intake about 300 grams of protein a day, which is a lot. I got really into how your body absorbs it and how you feel and how crazy it is when you intake that much food and actually feel better, your brain works better, and you actually lose weight even though you're eating more. It's so methodical. ~ Albert Hammond, Jr.

It's taken a lot of presidents to get us where we are today, a lot of deployments, a lot of wars, a lot engagements. You add them all up. ~ Jon Huntsman, Jr.

I'm not 40 yet. I wouldn't even bother comparing myself to Chaplin. ~ Robert Downey, Jr.

People who postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort to find the pot of gold at the rainbows end ... Your life will never be fulfilled until you are happy here and now ... ~ Ken Keyes Jr.

I had not been at all fair to myself, or to anyone or anything near me, by keeping my cigarettes right there next to me or in my shirt pocket throughout the years. ~ Earl Chinnici

I would say that among my many huge emotional miscalculations was my taking a film career for granted. It is the most awesome privilege to be able to use one's imagination and wit, physicality and musicality, conscious brain and unconscious instinct in the service of a work that has a chance to move and excite and amuse and delight people all over the world, including long after we're dead. What a noble calling! And I felt it was just there for me as a kind of given, some sort of inherited birthright-when in reality it's the most magnificent luxury. ~ Robert Downey, Jr.

I ended up with my life slanted toward television, and I just accept that. I think you play the hand the way it's dealt, that's all. ~ Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.

Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy. ~ Earl Nightingale

Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman. ~ William F. Buckley, Jr.

It's never the right time to take a particular stand. ~ Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

Cassidy readily understood that most dreamy high school thespians would not become international movie stars; most tots prancing across stages wearing rhinestone tiaras would not become Miss America; most ROTC standouts would not become heroes or astronauts.
But at the same time he was pretty sure that a few would. He had to believe in his heart that some of them would do these things. He understood that, even if Gary Castleton did not. ~ John L. Parker Jr.

When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy. ~ Sammy Davis Jr.

Wherefore, brethren, seek not to counsel the Lord, but to take counsel from his hand. For behold, ye yourselves know that he counseleth in wisdom, and in justice, and in great mercy, over all his works. ~ Joseph Smith Jr.

NOTHING MAKES SENSE. Do not look for any sense in things. It is not there. It is you who ascribe it to what you live or get to know. A defeat or a victory is neither a message from the gods nor a trick of fate. Neither means anything - and, if they seem to, it is but an interpretation you yourself make of them - , inasmuch as things in themselves are only indifference and silence. So, do not waste your precious time in looking for signs everywhere around you. Try and interpret happenings, those which bleed and those which make you smile, as maturing experiences. Oh, yes, what is most important: live! ~ Camilo Gomes Jr.

The other guys, all they have to do is use their big butts and big python arms to hit homers. Me, I'm the little guy in the group. People always root for the little guy. ~ Ken Griffey, Jr.

Hypocrisy is a fickle friend indeed . ~ Norbert F Hoffmann Jr

Never mistake law for justice. Justice is an ideal, and law is a tool. ~ L.E. Modesitt Jr.

God is not interested merely in the freedom of black men, and brown men, and yellow men; God is interested in the freedom of the whole human race. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

When (the Reds) won, we loved it because we ran into the locker room and touched all the bats and gloves and got some bubble gum and red pop. When they lost, we were upset because we didn't get the bubble gum and red pop. ~ Ken Griffey, Jr.