Quaker famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.
-- A. J. Muste -
So upright Quakers please both man and God.
-- Alexander Pope -
However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.
-- Brian De Palma -
Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
-- Harriet Tubman -
By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.
-- Jeremy Grantham -
In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.
-- John Sergeant Wise -
The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away ones worldly goods.
-- Kathy Baker -
Our Quakers love us. We're big with the Quakers. It's all about cleanliness.
-- Kyan Douglas -
As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the sacredness of human life.
-- Leon Trotsky -
I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.
-- Lionel Blue -
Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.
-- William Penn -
He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.
-- James Reston, Jr.
