"O sin, what hast thou done to this fair earth!"

-- Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

#Done Quotes #Earth Quotes #Sin Quotes

“People think the camera steals their soul. Places, I am convinced, are affected in the opposite direction. The more they are photographed (or drawn and painted) the more soul they seem to accumulate.”

Source : John Pfahl (1997). “Permutations on the picturesque”
“The cruelest prison of all is the prison of the mind.”
“I shall be found with 'Indians' engraved on my brain when I am dead. A fire has been kindled within me, which will never go out.”

Source : Helen Hunt Jackson (1998). “The Indian Reform Letters of Helen Hunt Jackson, 1879-1885”, p.56, University of Oklahoma Press
“If you do not actually like boys and girls, or young men and young women, give up teaching.”

Source : GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”
“How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.”
“The real platform for religion is based on the concepts of compassion, respect and consideration, not just for human beings, but for all forms of life.”
“Never forget that the most sacred right on this earth is mans right to have the earth to till with his own hands, the most sacred sacrifice the blood that a man sheds for this earth.”
“[T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes - rejecting all changes but through the channel itself provides for amendments.”

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