Spice Project - Aims to encourage young people to play an active role in citizenship by becoming involved in community issues, local democracy and the use of ICT. Includes a range of information on projects and the local community .
Derwentside Volunteer Bureau - Promotes the development, support, and value of volunteering for community projects . Includes details of how to join, completed projects, current opportunities, news and contacts .
Derwentdale Local History Society - Provides articles and photographs on the former steel towns of Consett and Shotley, together with notes on other local areas.
Gateway Wheelers - Registered charity formed to provide resources for people with disabilities the opportunity to enjoy, participate and benefit from cycling. Includes information on available cycles, monthly rides, and contacts .
Grave Text - Offers database searches and downloadable transcripts of monumental inscriptions from cemetries in the Derwent Valley.
A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team 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
ha Society and Culture Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Society and Culture
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates 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 Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Society and Culture
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Society and Culture Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Society and Culture
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Society and Culture Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Society and Culture
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Society and Culture Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Society and Culture
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "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
It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "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) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Society and Culture What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Society and Culture
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Society and Culture "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture
blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Society and Culture Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Society and Culture
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Society and Culture When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Society and Culture
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Society and Culture A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Society and Culture
