Parish of Tividale - Information about the Church of St Michael the Archangel and Holy Cross Church, including history and service times. A Forward in Faith parish.
Tividale High School - Contains a calendar, location details, a profile of the head teacher, subject area, and photographs.
B.C.Barton & Son Ltd - Specialised metalwork and fabrication. Includes company history and products.
"There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Tividale If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Tividale
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 Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Tividale "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Tividale
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Tividale Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Tividale
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Tividale "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Tividale
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Tividale Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Tividale
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Tividale The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Tividale
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Tividale You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Tividale
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Tividale "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Tividale
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Tividale Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
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"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Tividale "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Tividale
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Tividale If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Tividale
