"My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral"

-- Ulysses S. Grant

#Family Quotes #Book Quotes #Generations Quotes

“A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is based on blindness to the nobility of the effort, is vulgar.”

Source : Leo Strauss (2012). “Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity: Essays and Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought”, p.414, SUNY Press
“A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact that it is equally foreign, or apparently so, to the traditions of all nationalities.”
“A leader these days needs to be a host - one who convenes diversity; who convenes all viewpoints in creative processes where our mutual intelligence can come forth.”
“Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix that.”

Source : "Art Talk with Roxane Gay". Interview with Paulette Beete, www.arts.gov. March 31, 2014.
“The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.”

Source : Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”
“I came to accept that I have no right whatsoever to judge others in terms of my own customs, however much I may be proud of such customs.”
“Young people in particular need real options to find a decent job and to lift their lives. I'm not sure the new Islamist governments will be the best to promote prosperity and growth.”

Source : "Spain's Former Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar on the Arab Awakening and How the West Should React" by Jose Maria Aznar, www.cnbc.com. December 08, 2011.
“I didn't have an imaginary friend, and even if I did I'm sure it would have been derivative of something I saw on television.”

You may also like:

Abraham Lincoln
16th U.S. President
Andrew Johnson
17th U.S. President
George B. McClellan
Former Governor of New Jersey
James A. Garfield
20th U.S. President
Jefferson Davis
Former President of the Confederate States of America
Robert E. Lee
Military Officer
Rutherford B. Hayes
19th U.S. President
Stonewall Jackson
Military Commander
William Tecumseh Sherman
Author