Thomas Starr King famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.
-- Thomas Starr King

#Inspiring #Flower #Air
By cultivating an interest in a few good books which contain the result of the toil or the quintessence of the genius of some of the most gifted thinkers of the world, we need not live on the marsh and in the mists. The slopes and ridges invite us.
-- Thomas Starr King

#Book #Needs #Genius
Nature never writes a blind hand.
-- Thomas Starr King

#Writing #Hands #Blind
The fact is, that of all God's gifts to the sight of man, color, is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. We speak rashly of gay color and sad color, for color cannot at once be good and gay. All good color is in some degree pensive, the loveliest is melancholy, and the purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.
-- Thomas Starr King

#Gay #Thoughtful #Men
Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius.
-- Thomas Starr King

#Genius #Eloquence #Humans
Nature is hieroglyphic. Each prominent fact in it is like a type; its final use is to set up one letter of the infinite alphabet, and help us by its connections to read some statement or statute applicable to the conscious world.
-- Thomas Starr King

#Nature #Finals #Use
Be sure of the foundation of your life. Know why you live as you do. Be ready to give a reason for it. Do not, in such a matter as life, build an opinion or custom on what you guess is true. Make it a matter of certainty and science.
-- Thomas Starr King

#Life #Giving #Matter
Leaves are the Greek, flowers the Italian, phase of the spirit of beauty that reveals itself through the flora of the globe.
-- Thomas Starr King

#Flower #Italian #Greek
Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I'm mad, I weigh a ton.
-- Thomas Starr King

#Mad #Pounds
What a privilege it is to be an American!
-- Thomas Starr King

#Privilege
The oak roars when a high wind wrestles with it; the beech shrieks; the elm sends forth a long, deep groan; the ash pours out moans of thrilling anguish.
-- Thomas Starr King

#Wind #Long #Ashes

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