"As I went about with my father, when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid someone had to work hard to earn the money to pay them."

-- Calvin Coolidge

#Father Quotes #Hard Work Quotes #President Quotes

“Well, then, Lord Jesus! I will creep if I cannot walk; I will take hold of Thy word. When I stumble, Thou wilt support me; when I fall, Thou wilt hold out Thy cross, and help me with it to rise again, until at length I reach the place where Thou art, and with all my weaknesses and wants, cast myself into Thy bosom.”

Source : Christian Scriver (1857). “Gotthold's Emblems: or Invisible things understood by things that are made. Tr. by R. Menzies”, p.22
“I'm going to change everything you believe about HUD.”
“Everybody knows I return all of my phone calls. I pick up my cell phone myself, much to the chagrin of my staff.”
“If you do something and it goes wrong, you learn from it and you move on.”
“It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.”
“I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then... the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball.”
“Music is religion for me. There'll be music in the hereafter, too.”
“All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.”

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