Kington Genealogy - Includes various families and Salvation Army officers genealogy. Also photographs, guest book and contact details.
Kindness Family site - This is the site for family and relations of Nicol Kindness from the North East of Scotland
Rob's Northern Pages - Kerss ancestors, photos of Northeast England, especially 1890s, including personal family tree and contact details.
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o K "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne K
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor K There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington K
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) K Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain K
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown K All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr K
"Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams K Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill K
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe K 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. I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha K
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson K We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live K
Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) K The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) K
"Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne K I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. K
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) K What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) K
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) K How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) K
