Quarrington Hill Website - Photos from the village, history, plus old minutes from the local social club.
Richard's Photo Gallery - A collection and interactive map source of photographs of the County.
Old Maps of Durham - Provides a range of online historic maps of the County for genealogists and historians. Dates range from 1610 to 1920 .
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
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A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
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-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
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-- Rick Radebaugh Maps and Views Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
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-- Katharine Hepburn "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Maps and Views
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
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All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
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-- Anonymous Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
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-- INDIRA Maps and Views Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
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"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
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I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Maps and Views
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-- Nicholas Negroponte Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
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Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Maps and Views Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
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-- Albert Einstein Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
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Do or do not. There is no try.
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-- George Bus Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
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-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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