Quotations

"I was brought up on the books of The Wizard of Oz and my mother told me that these were great philosophies. It was a very simple philosophy, that everybody had a heart, that everybody had a brain, that everybody had courage. These were the gifts that are given to you when you come on this earth, and if you use them properly, you reach the pot at the end of the rainbow. And that pot of gold was a home. And home isn't just a house or an abode, its people who love you and that you love. That's a home."

— Ray Bolger, American actor, born 1904

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say: I used everything you gave me."

— Erma Bombeck, American humorist, born 1927

"Women shop for a bikini with more care than they do a husband. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow."

— Erma Bombeck, American humorist, born 1927

"I’ll never be like other people, but that’s alright, because I’m a bear."

— Michael Bond, English author (Paddington Bear), born 1926

"A wise bear always keeps a marmalade sandwich in his hat in case of emergency."

— Michael Bond, English author (Paddington Bear), born 1926

"God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred."

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian, born 1906

"A God who lets us prove his existence would be an idol."

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian, born 1906

"Silence in the face of Evil is Evil itself: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act."

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian, born 1906

"Since fire's born of fire, why should we desire to gather up its scattered ash. On the appointed day we surrendered what we were to a vaster blaze, the evening sky."

— Yves Bonnefoy, French poet, born 1923

"Our hands full or not: the same abundance. Our eyes open or shut: the same light."

— Yves Bonnefoy, French poet, born 1923

"To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater."

— Bono, Irish singer, born 1960

"We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong."

— Bono, Irish singer, born 1960

"But, my dear, I knew when I was a baby what I wanted to do, and I'll tell you, kiddo, if you don't do what your heart tells you, you'll never be real."

— Shirley Booth, American actress, born 1898

"To get a man soundly saved, it is not enough to put on him a pair of new breeches, to give him regular work, or even to give him a University education. These things are all outside a man, and if the inside remains unchanged you have wasted your labor. You must in some way or other graft upon the man's nature a new nature, which has in it the element of the Divine."

— William Booth, English minister, born 1829