David Ervine quotes

“We have got to extend the hand of friendship, we have got to take the peacelines down brick by brick”
-- David Ervine

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“This society believed it was looking towards a new future, yet we consistently find ourselves being dragged backwards.”
-- David Ervine

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“We lost our way, our society lost our way.”
-- David Ervine

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“To her- Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap. Say you're surprised? Say you like it? Say it's just what you wanted? Because it's yours- because we love you.”

“The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.”

“I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.”

“O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.”

Source : Aaron Hill (1760). “Muses in mourning. Zara, to which is added, an interlude, never before printed. Snake in the grass. Alzira. Saul. Daraxes. Merope. Roman revenge. Insolvent. Some love letters, by the author”, p.147

“The transistor was a small plastic unit that would take us from a world of static bricks piled on top of each other to a world where everything was interactive.”

“You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.”

“Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies/ a girder, still itself among the rubbish”

Source : Charles Reznikoff, Seamus Cooney (2005). “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975”, p.107, David R. Godine Publisher

“Haters are my favorite. I´ve built an empire with the bricks they´ve thrown at me. Keep on hating.”

“Eventually, someone is going to pick up a brick.”

“Lord Maccon was built like a brick outhouse, with opinions twice as unmoving and often equally full of crap.”