Heighington - Historical information on the church, local records, census details and cemetries.
Heighington Light Opera Group - Singing group offering choral performances and annual show. Details of membership, social activities, committee members and future productions.
St.Michael's Church - Grade 1 listed Anglican church. Details of services, vicar's contact information and church location.
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Heighington Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Heighington
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. "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Heighington "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Heighington
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Heighington Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Heighington
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Heighington The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Heighington
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Heighington A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Heighington
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Heighington To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Heighington
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "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) Heighington The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Heighington
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Heighington "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Heighington
Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Heighington Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Heighington
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Heighington "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Heighington
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) 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 While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Heighington "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) 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 "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Heighington
