Shirley Gill:
CLASS OF 1976
Southampton High SchoolClass of 1976
Courtland, VA
Shirley's Story
Shirley is from Ivor, Virginia. She is married. Her schools include Southampton High School. She later attended Virginia Tech (English), New River Community College (Science and Medical Administrative Technology).
Shirley's interests include Victorian literature, Old English literature, W.E.B Dubois. Music she likes includes Queen Latifah, Charlie Parker - Verve Records, Fans of John Coltrane. Books she likes include The Chicago Manual of Style, For Reading Addicts, Lost Communities of Virginia. Movies she likes include Mr. Peabody & Sherman, Will Smith, Charles Dickens's England. TV shows she likes include Call the Midwife, MASTERPIECE | PBS (Masterpiece Theatre), Downton Abbey.
One of Shirley's favorite quotes is:""May we never want a friend in need, nor a bottle to give him."
--Captain Cuttle in Charles Dickens' Dombey and Son
"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."
---Mark Twain
"It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office." ---Shirley MacLaine
"What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being. We should recognize that while we have extravagantly subs...Expand for more
idized the means of war. we have almost totally neglected the ways of peaceableness. We have, for example, several national military academies, but not one peace academy. We have ignored the teachings and the examples of Christ, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and other peaceable leaders. And here we have an inescapable duty to notice also that war is profitable, whereas the means of peaceableness, being cheap or free, make no money."
--Wendell Berry, Thoughts in the Presence of Fear
"If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them, and what you do not know you will fear. What one fears one destroys."
--Chief Dan George
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence."
--Frederick Douglass
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More about Shirley:"I LOVE cats, chickens, rabbits, and dogs; freshwater fishing and organic gardening; reading 18th- and 19th-century British and American literature; teaching and editing; healthy, southern cooking; and being with my family. Occasionally, I do accompany my handsome sons to classic rock concerts. : )".
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