"Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, They have left unstained, what there they found,- Freedom to worship God."

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Source : Felicia Dorothea Hemans, “The Landing Of The Pilgrim Fathers In New England”

Felicia Hemans

#Freedom Quotes #Soil Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Some people wait constructively; they read or knit. I have watched some truly appalling pieces of needlework take form. Others - I am one of them - abandon all thought and purpose to an uneasy vegetative states.”
“Nothing is permanent about our behavior patterns except our belief that they are so.”
“I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don't know if what I'm doing is the right thing. But that's the way I'm doing it.”
“People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better... They don't know it, but they're losing nature. They don't see that they're going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water.”
“Too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we moderns are inundated with facts to the detriment of understanding.”
“Don't blow your load on the first stroke, fellas.”
“It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a seance.”

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