#Culture Quotes #Helping Quotes #Social Quotes
“No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.”
“The memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world, nor of its thoughts and hopes. Their gentle influence may teach us how to weave fresh garlands for the graves of those we loved: may purify our thoughts, and bear down before it old enmity and hatred; but beneath all this, there lingers, in the least reflective mind, a vague and half-formed consciousness of having held such feelings long before, in some remote and distant time, which calls up solemn thoughts of distant times to come, and bends down pride and worldliness beneath it.”
“You see, you cannot draw lines and compartments, and refuse to budge beyond them, sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success”
Source : Rohinton Mistry (2008). “A Fine Balance”, p.232, Faber & Faber
“The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.”
“I spent six years in the army. That's the reason I am like a drill sergeant sometimes.”
“The game is always going to be bigger than the man and it doesn't matter what you are doing; records or whatever, somebody is just going to come along and break your records. But to achieve something that people would always look up to is something you will always appreciate.”
“Optimism is America's birthright.... There is no social problem Americans dare not attack. No problem, that is, except one: about marriage, and marriage alone, we despair.”
“Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them.”
Catharine Beecher
Debby Applegate Historian
Edward Everett Hale Author
Harriet Beecher Stowe Author
John Brown Abolitionist
Julia Ward Howe Activist
Lyman Beecher
Theodore Tilton Poet
Victoria Woodhull Political leader
