Clan Davidson Society USA - Detailing the origins and history of the clan, offering images, music, information on tartans and coats of arms. Gives membership information and contact details.
About Your Scottish Name : Davidson Clan - The origins of the Davidson Clan, with scenic description and map of the ancient family lands in Scotland. Also includes the origins of Scottish surnames, photos of Scotland, a Scottish history timeline and poems of Rabbie Burns.
Sam Davidson's Family Tree - Site for Davidsons from Ayrshire, Lanarkshire, Rutherglen and Govanhill area. Features contact information and encourages the participation and addition of information to the tree.
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-- Mae West Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
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-- Rita Mae Brown Davidson
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
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-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show What do you take me for, an idiot?
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"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
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-- Martin Luther Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
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-- John Steinbeck Davidson To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Davidson Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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-- Erich Fromm My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Davidson
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
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-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Davidson You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Davidson
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
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not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Davidson "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Davidson
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley My other wife is beautiful. I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Davidson blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
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