Blackhall Local History Group - Provides details of contacts and meetings. Includes brief accounts of the sinking of Blackhall colliery, the building of the local church, and the miners welfare scheme .
Blackhall Methodist Church - Services, location, activities, junior church, contact, photos and links. Part of the Durham Coast and Peterlee Circuit.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Blackhall If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Blackhall
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Blackhall Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Blackhall
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Blackhall Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Blackhall
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Blackhall "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Blackhall
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Blackhall A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Blackhall
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) 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) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Blackhall I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Blackhall
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Blackhall We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Blackhall
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Blackhall Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Blackhall
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Blackhall Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Blackhall
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Blackhall An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Blackhall
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Blackhall 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 There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Blackhall
