Tuberous Sclerosis Association - Supporting sufferers, promoting awareness, and seeking the causes and best possible management of Tuberous Sclerosis.
Bromsgrove District Scouts - Includes information about local groups, the district, events, image gallery, and e-mail directory.
Bromsgrove Baptist Church - Includes information about service times and preachers, youth ministry, missionary work and support, Alpha courses and house and discipleship groups. Contact details and a map of the location are also included.
Bromsgrove Museum - Small but interesting museum run by the District Council with displays of past crafts and industry including The Bromsgrove Guild, a unique organisation of craftsmen founded in 1894 and famous for its skills.
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Society and Culture Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Society and Culture
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Society and Culture
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Society and Culture "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Society and Culture
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Society and Culture A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Society and Culture
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Society and Culture You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Society and Culture
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Society and Culture If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Society and Culture
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Society and Culture A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) 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 Society and Culture
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Society and Culture Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Society and Culture
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill 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 At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Society and Culture Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Society and Culture
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Society and Culture Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Society and Culture
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Society and Culture
