Archive for the Tag 'Well-known Quotations'
Oct 24 2008
Posted by David under Blog, My photos, Well-known Quotations
Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ~George Eliot
An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language. ~Martin Buber
To insult someone we call him “bestial.” For deliberate cruelty and nature, “human” might be the greater insult. ~Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov’s Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988
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Sep 23 2008
Posted by David under Blog, My photos, Well-known Quotations
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. ~Abraham Lincoln
Freedom is never free. ~Author Unknown
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! ~Maya Angelou
Lord, bid war’s trumpet cease;
Fold the whole earth in peace.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree. ~Thomas Campbell
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Sep 20 2008
Posted by David under Blog, My photos, Well-known Quotations
The tulip and the butterfly
Appear in gayer coats than I:
Let me be dressed fine as I will,
Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
~Isaac Watts
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. ~Rachel Carson
That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe. ~John Berger, The Sense of Sight, 1980
Nature is man’s teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence. ~Alfred Billings Street
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Sep 20 2008
Posted by David under Blog, My photos, Well-known Quotations
May the roof above us never fall in
And may we good companions beneath it never fall out.
~Irish Blessing
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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