Beechwood County Primary School - Includes information about plays, organisations, holidays, projects, Early Years, some subject areas.
St Martin's Catholic Primary School - Details on school life, Ofsted report, playgroups, after school clubs and details on our parish church. [Murdishaw, Runcorn]
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Education If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Education
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Education I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Education
"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Education The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Education
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Education
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Education "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Education
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Education
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Education I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Education
"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Education People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Education
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Education To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Education
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Education Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Education
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Education Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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