Olympia Brown famous quotes

The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal.
-- Olympia Brown

#America #Doors #Giving

When I read of the vain discussions of the present day about the Virgin Birth and other old dogmas which belong to the past, I feel how great the need is still of a real interest in the religion which builds up character, teaches brotherly love, and opens up to the seeker such a world of usefulness and the beauty of holiness.
-- Olympia Brown

#Real #Character #Past

The Old Testament teems with prophecies of the Messiah, but nowhere is it intimated that that Messiah is to stand as a God to be worshipped. He is to bring peace on earth, to build up the waste places--to comfort the broken-hearted, but nowhere is he spoken of as a deity.
-- Olympia Brown

#Broken #Earth #Waste

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
-- Olympia Brown

#Happiness #Sacrifice #Color

In striving for the best, in losing onself in others, one is lifted above the common material furniture of life, above the gaudy trappings and encumbering paraphenalia... into the realm of peace which passeth understanding.
-- Olympia Brown

#Understanding #Furniture #Common

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the molds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
-- Olympia Brown

#Fate #Shapes #Majority

How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.
-- Olympia Brown

#Errors #Giving #Principles

The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.
-- Olympia Brown

#Science #Simple #Law

Endless sorrow has fallen upon my heart.
-- Olympia Brown

#Heart #Sorrow #Endless

It's funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they really sound like. If you ask anyone in America, they would try and give it a go. English people just know their songs.

I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.

What hard evidence is there that Obama doesn't want ebola in America?

Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language.

When one door opens, so does another one.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Death is a door life opens.

Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.

If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs

Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.