Brandon Heritage Centre - A photographic archive of life in Brandon Colliery at the turn of the century .
Durham City Coaches Ltd. - Operating a fleet of executive and standard coaches, for contract and private hire.
Prince Bishop - Public house, provides details of its facilities including lunch and evening menus.
Brandon County Infant School. - Teaches children from age 3 to 7 years. Also provide a nursery unit with morning and afternoon groups. Includes available facilities, staff details and contacts, and class projects with photographs .
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Brandon America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Brandon
"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Brandon "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Brandon
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Brandon He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Brandon
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Brandon "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Brandon
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Brandon As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Brandon
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Brandon A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Brandon
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Brandon Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Brandon
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Brandon However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Brandon
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 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 "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 They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Brandon Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Brandon
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 What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Brandon With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Brandon
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Brandon Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Brandon
