James Ellis
James Ellis
James "Jimmy" Ellis was a Northern Irish actor and stage director with a career stretching over sixty years...
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth15 March 1931
CityBelfast, Northern Ireland
winter majesty naked
In winter we behold the charms of solemn majesty and naked grandeur.
luck credit action
Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune.
loyalty greatness heroic-deeds
True loyalty consists not in bowing the knee to earthly greatness, or in heroic deeds to "gild the kingly knave, or garnish out the fool," but in noble, generous acts of honest purpose, where truth, honor, and virtue, and a nation's welfare, are dearer than life.
wish lending
Let us lend cheerfully, for the time is pretty sure to come when we will wish to borrow.
hymns lows
The rustling of the leaves is like a low hymn to nature.
ambition men blessing
To the lazy man the world appears bereft of all blessings; if poor, he has no friends; if rich, he has no ambition; he aims at nothing, and generally hits his mark.
family joy mind
It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the little joys and endearments of a family.
giving mind literature
A knowledge of general literature is one of the evidences of an enlightened mind; and to give an apt quotation at a fitting time, proves that the mind is stored with sentential lore that can always be used to great advantage by its possessor.
mind ugly faces
Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.
hero home virtue
We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our lives.
challenged defensive game halftime holding kids points third
I challenged the kids to come out of halftime with a defensive stand. Holding them to two points in the third is what put away the game for us.
Snow, sleet, hail, ice, rain, floods. Did I say ice?
living longer museum
It's no longer a museum piece. She's actually a living ship.
angel men and-love
Angels worship God with purity and love; men, with fear and trembling.