Ravenshead Community Newsletter - Covers Ravenshead and Harlow Wood. Includes photographes and comprehensive information on events and news about this area.
Ravenshead Leisure Centre - Photos of facilities, details of activities available, charges, how to book and contact information.
Ravenshead Parish Council - Member details, monthly reports, meeting minutes and planning applications.
Papplewick Pumping Station - Preserved Victorian water pumping station near Nottingham. Also Linby colliery winding engine and triple expansion steam engine on site.
Newstead Abbey - Historic house, originally a 12th century monastery later became the seat of the Byron family. Abbey and gardens open to the public. News, history, event calendar, admission prices and opening times.
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Ravenshead Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
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It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Ravenshead When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Ravenshead
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis 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 Ravenshead "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Ravenshead
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Ravenshead 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 To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Ravenshead
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Ravenshead "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Ravenshead
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Ravenshead Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Ravenshead
No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 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 You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ravenshead Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Ravenshead
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Ravenshead "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Ravenshead
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld 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 The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Ravenshead Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Ravenshead
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Ravenshead "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Ravenshead
"We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Ravenshead "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) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Ravenshead
