Birtley Athletics Club - Meets at the leisure centre and participates in both track and field events from 8 years upwards. Details of coaching, events, results, location, club officials and roll of honour.
St Joseph's, Birtley - Catholic church with details of mass, parish council, history and pictures from pilgrimages to Holy Island.
Clean a Blind - Family business offering a region-wide venetian blind cleaning and repair service. Also contract carpet and upholstery cleaning.
Chester-le-Street Methodist Circuit - Covering six churches in the area around Chester-le-Street Birtley. Preaching plan, churches, vision, staff, contacts and links.
Jome Kit Care - Offer a football kit washing and repair service. Details of service, new kits and company background.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Birtley We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Birtley
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Birtley A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Birtley
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Birtley In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Birtley
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Birtley Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Birtley
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Birtley Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Birtley
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Birtley "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Birtley
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Birtley "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Birtley
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Birtley "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Birtley
"In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Birtley Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Birtley
Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Birtley Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Birtley
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Birtley Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Birtley
