David Abell:
CLASS OF 1997
Elgin High SchoolClass of 1997
Elgin, IL
David's Story
David is from West Chicago, Illinois. David's schools include Elgin High School.
Music David likes includes Ben Folds, Buckcherry, Pentatonix. Books David likes include Raymond E. Feist, The Walking Dead Novels, The Wheel of Time. Movies David likes include "Swamp People" Invade Maxim, 'Frankenweenie' Teaser Trailer, Heaven..
One of David's favorite quotes is:"Harry Potter is about confronting your fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity.
Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend."
-Stephen King
"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
~F. Scott Fitzgerald
Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people
to know "why" I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of
the roads weren't paved.
"If you can't take the heat, don't tickle the dragon."
"'Is working with propane or gasoline dangerous?' No, it is a fire hazard and should be handled with care and a heathly dose of common sense. If you roast marshmallows, set off fireworks or light up a cigarette while doing anything in the vicinity of fuel, you are an idiot and will probably be on fire in short order- you have been warned."
~Motorcycle Consumer News Nov. 2010
The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
~David Russell.
Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.
~ Einstein
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
~Aristotle
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by.
If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them.
If there are no gods then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
~Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important t...Expand for more
han fear.
~Ambrose Redmoon
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
~Bertrand Russell
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
~Fred Astaire
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
~Oscar Wilde
There's good people in the 'verse. Not many, Lord knows, but you only need a few.
-Firefly
I live with the Curse of Competence.
Time flies like the wind, fruit flies like bananas.
Politics comes from the roots "poly" meaning many and "ticks" meaning blood sucking vermin.
No trees were harmed in this message but several thousand electrons were inconvenienced.
"Creative ingenuity is a wisdom born of suffering."
Soichiro Honda
"Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons for thou art crunchy and taste good with ketchup and mustard."
Crossroads:
"I find I get these a lot, a lot more than in TV. Not a fork in the road, not a Robert Frost poem, but a place where there are multiple paths to go and at first glance all look alike. I'm reminded of the Daikini Crossroads in the movie Willow where you have a task to do which you are up against crummy odds, no one seems willing to help you...and there's a man in a cage calling you names and making rude gestures with his hands."
~Greg Abell
"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend,is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."
The Late Dr. Adrian Rogers -1931 to 2005".
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