RAF Blakelaw - Take a tour around an old RAF Fighter Command bunker based at Kenton Bar, Newcastle upon Tyne. Includes maps and photographs.
English to Geordie Translator - A humorous conversion of English to Geordie, a dialect of Northumbria, North East England.
David Clelland MP - Member of Parliament for Tyne Bridge. News and information about his work in promoting the interests of the people of Gateshead and Newcastle.
Killingworth.net - Site showcasing community activities in Killingworth. Community initiatives, council services, uniformed organisations and social groups are all covered.
The North-Easterner - Local and family history magazine for the North East of England. Extracts from past issues and subscription details.
Geordieland: Home of the Gods - The concept of 'Geordie' defined, with information about the local area, history, humour, songs, photographs and links.
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) 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 Society and Culture True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Society and Culture "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Society and Culture "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Society and Culture
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Society and Culture Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Society and Culture
You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Society and Culture A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Society and Culture
blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Society and Culture Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Society and Culture
If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Society and Culture "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) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Society and Culture
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Society and Culture
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Society and Culture It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Society and Culture
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Society and Culture "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Society and Culture To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Society and Culture
