Churches Together in Runcorn - Provided as an umbrella site for any church in Runcorn. Includes a discussion database.
Church in Central Runcorn - The Parishes of St Andrew, Grange and Holy Trinity. Working with the Methodist and Anglican congregation of Wicksten Drive Community Centre. Contains who's who, notice of services, and photo gallery.
Halton Borough Council - Provides information regarding local service, communities and businesses for the people of Halton.
Halton Voluntary Action - Enables and assist local people to volunteer within the local community.
Murdishaw Church and Centre - Joint Methodist and Church of England. Services, history, buildings, links, location and photos.
HITS Grangeway Runcorn - Hits is a voluntary sector youth social work agency, based in the Borough of Halton - the Towns of Widnes and Runcorn
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Society and Culture "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon 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 Society and Culture It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Society and Culture
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Society and Culture "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) 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 "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Society and Culture
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Society and Culture "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Society and Culture You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Society and Culture
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Society and Culture Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Society and Culture
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Society and Culture "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Society and Culture
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Society and Culture If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Society and Culture
Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Society and Culture "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Society and Culture The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Society and Culture blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Society and Culture
