WORDS WORTH REPEATING #3

BY DAN MILLER
(originally posted January 10, 2005)

Here are a few more quotes and phrases I've run across, that I simply find interesting.

"To most of my friends, the West Coast is the Mississippi River."

TERRY BRADSHAW
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"That was a real trend-breaker, huh?"

PEYTON MANNING, after running for a one-yard quarterback sneak, the first time the Indianapolis Colts have used that play since Tony Dungy became their coach in 2002.
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"It was bad judgment. I never want anybody to have the perception that I'm only advocating something because I'm paid for it."

ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS, TV commentator and syndicated columnist, whose column was cancelled after he admitted accepting more than $240,000 of government money in exchange for promoting the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind legislation.
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"Oh, really? I think I did a helluva job..... I'll admit I misled people about my personal life. And I have even apologized for it, but I never misled the people about policy, and I certainly never misled the people about going to war."

BILL CLINTON, who was walking through Central Park with his Secret Service team, when a man pushing a stroller taunted him, saying, "You were an embarrassment to the office of commander-in-chief." Clinton stopped and said those words to the heckler.
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"It's like watching your son playing in traffic, and there's nothing you can do. You can't reach him."

JANET BELLOWS, on her son's pending deployment to Iraq.
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"I had the opportunity to participate in an open town meeting with about 150 Sunni sheiks. And it was lake a town meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, or Knoxville, Tennessee. There was debate and disagreement and discussion -- open, heated, emotional. People are saying --- some were saying, 'Don't postpone elections'; others were saying, 'Postpone'... something that would have never, ever occurred in Iraq before the collapse of Saddam Hussein."

SENATOR BILL FRIST, on NBC's Meet The Press, talking about his just completed trip to Iraq.
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"I prayed to live until this day. We fought for this. We dreamed of this. And now it is reality. It's a statement that political assassinations are not acceptable in the state of Mississippi, never again."

LAWRENCE GUYOT JR., who was a field worker with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 41 years ago when three of his colleagues were murdered, commenting on last week's arrest in Mississippi of a man suspected of taking part in those killings.
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"I don't know if I'd call this a sixth sense so much as a better sense. Most animals know that when the ground starts to shake, something is wrong."

KEN GRANT, Humane Society coordinator in Indonesia, on why so many animals escaped the ravages of the tsunami.
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"Life changes."

Words on a pink halter top found near the body of a young girl in Indonesia after the waters hit.
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"It is beyond the scope of what I can handle."

MAURICE HOLLINGSWORTH, associate pastor of West Jackson Baptist Church in Jackson, when asked about the tsunami disaster.
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And finally, these powerful words written long ago by author GEORGE ELIOT, who died in 1880:

"What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs."

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