Sat, 06 Jan 2024 19:44:19 -0800WeeblySat, 04 Nov 2017 05:51:35 GMThttp://www.classshelf.com/great-quotes/every-shrimp-has-its-own-pool"When the tide waters of Biblical knowledge are at such a low ebb every ship has its own pool."

I love the imagery and the idea behind this statement that has been seared into my memory for well over twelve years now, unfortunately I am not sure who I first heard say it; nor am I sure that this is exactly what was said. I believe I hear Dr. Ravi Zacharias say it in a question answer session, but I am not sure. ]]>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:42:23 GMThttp://www.classshelf.com/great-quotes/introduction-to-norse-mythology Burning ice, biting flame; that is how life began.
In the South is a realm called Muspell. That region flickers with dancing flames. It seethes and it shines. No one can endure it except those born into it. Black Surt is there; he sits on the furthest reach of that land, brandishing a flaming sword; he is already waiting for the end when he will rise and savage the gods and whelm the whole world with fire.
--Kevin Crossley-holland

]]>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:07:38 GMThttp://www.classshelf.com/great-quotes/martin-luther-king-jr-i-have-a-dream-endAnd if America is to be a great nation this must become true.
So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California!
But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
-Martin Luther King Jr. "I have a Dream"
]]>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:41:41 GMThttp://www.classshelf.com/great-quotes/martin-luther-king-jr-i-have-a-dreamI am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.
-Martin Luther King Jr., "I Have a Dream"
]]>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 04:22:43 GMThttp://www.classshelf.com/great-quotes/king-martin-luther-jr-streangth-to-love Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-Martin Luther King Jr.  Strength to Love
]]>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 04:08:19 GMThttp://www.classshelf.com/great-quotes/blackmore-r-d-lorna-dooneToo late we know the good from the bad; the knowledge is no pleasure then; being memory’s medicine rather than the wine of hope.
- RD Blackmore, Lorna Doone
]]>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 03:57:32 GMThttp://www.classshelf.com/great-quotes/swift-johnathan-a-tale-of-a-tubLast week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how  much it altered her appearance for the worse.
-Johnathan Swift, "A Tale of a Tub"
]]>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 03:53:56 GMThttp://www.classshelf.com/great-quotes/dickens-charles-a-tale-of-two-cities1It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
 
- A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens ]]>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 03:52:18 GMThttp://www.classshelf.com/great-quotes/london-jack-white-fangDown a frozen waterway toiled a string of wolfish dogs.
Jack London - "White Fang" ]]>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 03:50:24 GMThttp://www.classshelf.com/great-quotes/dickens-charles-a-tale-of-two-citiesIt is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a 
far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
-Charles Dickens,  A Tale of Two Cities  ]]>