Brownlow College - Integrated secondary school for children between the ages of 11 - 18. Details of the departments, activities and calendar.
Craigavon Online - An information resource for the town including news, community features such as funding, information, database, forum and links to services. Also provides details of local job opportunities.
Ballydougan Pottery - Producing hand-thrown and decorated stoneware. Also offering self-catering holiday cottages. Includes history and contacts.
Kernan Precast Concrete - Specialises in producing quality concrete, sandstone and granite products for the building industry.
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e 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 If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Craigavon Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Craigavon
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
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-- Jonathan S. Haas Craigavon The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
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-- Marcel Achard He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Craigavon
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) 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 "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Craigavon It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Craigavon
"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) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Craigavon Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner 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 Craigavon
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Craigavon "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Craigavon
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Craigavon Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Craigavon
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Craigavon Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Craigavon
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) 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 Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Craigavon I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Craigavon
"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) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac 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 Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Craigavon "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Craigavon
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" 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 "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Craigavon A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Craigavon
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 The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Craigavon As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Craigavon
