“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.From an Irish headstone”

“Why, God? You made man in your own image. Why then do so many lack good sense? And why is that we are so easily drawn to hate and kill each other? Why, God?”

“If you dont know history,you dont know anything.Edward Johnston”

“We got a saying around here about our corn, it grows knee-high by the Fourth of July.”

“As Ive been telling your, son, you get nowhere looking at clothes and the color of the skin to judge a man. It wont tell you nothing about whats inside. Thats where a fellows mettle is, and thats w...”

“You have to learn the difference between a mans looks, and how fine he shoots. Theyve never been one and the same.”

“It takes a pillage.”

“If you dont know history,you dont know anything.Edward Johnston”

“Years later, as a professor, Martin would try to find the words to articulate the power of togetherness in a world where togetherness had been corrupted -- and to explore the effect of the music, t...”

“And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars--all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak natio...”

“Any person who considers himself, and intends to remain, a member of Western society inherits the Western past from Athens and Jerusalem to Runnymede and Valley Forge, as well as to Watts and Chica...”

“But what's in a name? We have named all of the stars and all the planets, even though they might already have names of their own. What a nerve!”

“Deciding to wait, Scott sat down with a pint away from the bar at a corner table and lit a cigarette. The clientele in there on Sunday afternoon were the same as most other afternoons. From middle-...”

“Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.”