UK Genealogy - Site of genealogy links and maps, Useful starting point for anyone researching their ancestors in Derbyshire.
Crich, Derbyshire, UK - Genealogical information and articles on the history of the Parish of Crich in the County of Derbyshire, UK. Useful for Family Historians.
Dethick, Lea and Holloway, Derbyshire, UK - Genealogical information and articles on the history of the Parish of Dethick, Lea and Holloway in the County of Derbyshire, UK.
Crich Parish - A history of this parish and its people. Transcripts of parish registers, census extracts, information relating to local trades, plus photographs and contact details.
HASLAND - A collection of information on the village of Hasland.
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Genealogy There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Genealogy
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "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 "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Genealogy The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Genealogy
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Genealogy When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Genealogy
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
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-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
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-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Genealogy
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Genealogy Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "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) Genealogy
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Genealogy The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 Genealogy
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Genealogy Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Genealogy
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Genealogy Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Genealogy
Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Genealogy I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Genealogy
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Genealogy Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Genealogy
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Genealogy Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Genealogy
