Quotes
Authors
Townsend Harris
"We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries." --
Townsend Harris
#Country Quotes
#Japan Quotes
#Desire Quotes
“Proclaiming the gospel to all mankind is a fundamental part of the mission of the Church.”
“I was at a party, and some squiggly looking dude with a bow tie came up and said, 'How'd you like to be on TV?' Turns out he was the programming guy at the Food Network. They had me come into the office, and I did a 'Ready, Set, Cook' with Emeril Lagasse, I believe.”
“The soul grows by subtraction, not addition.”
“They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can't.”
“Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance.”
“I was watching MTV and there were girls dancing in suspended cages. That would be an ambivalent situation: "I'm trapped! ...but enjoying the music".”
“There is something else that is trying to come through - that lure of becoming - and it does come from the realm of spirit, it does come from the quantum universe, it does come from the great spark that is the threshold of time and history trying to emerge and electrify us.”
“Look with all your eyes, look.”