Belva Ann Lockwood famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.
-- Belva Ann Lockwood

#Generations #Glory #Precedent
I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.
-- Belva Ann Lockwood

#Law #Prejudice #Our Actions
I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade-or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.
-- Belva Ann Lockwood

#Sex #Believe #Men
If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.
-- Belva Ann Lockwood

#War #Law #Practice
Men always say, "Let's see what you can do." If we always talk and never work we will not accomplish anything.
-- Belva Ann Lockwood

#Men #Action #Accomplish
No one can claim to be called Christian who gives money for the building of warships and arsenals.
-- Belva Ann Lockwood

#Christian #Giving #Building
Reforms are slow, but they never go backward.
-- Belva Ann Lockwood

#Reform

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.
Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
Is it ever possible to overdo the talking about the glory of Christ? Is it ever too often to be in God's presence?
Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory.
Whoever is not made glorified by taqwa can find no glory.
I do not care for the money, just for the glory.
I am young and avid for glory.
Stability means respecting precedents.
The only thing that can be safely predicted is that sometime soon your organization will be challenged to change in ways for which it has no precedent.
Everything I write has a precedent in truth.

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