Abraham Lincoln Gettysburg Address Quotes

#1. That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
- President Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg address, November 19, 1863

Abraham Lincoln

#2. I've gained a few pounds around the middle. The only lower body garments I own that still fit me comfortably are towels.

Dave Barry

#3. I did though at least expect him to correct the false statements he made when he was trying to protect the Presidency. Instead, he talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn't resist the dessert.

Monica Lewinsky

#4. Racers never lose their skill, they just lose the will to use it, and until they reach that point they keep getting faster.

Mat Oxley

#5. The first time I heard Ron Whitehead read I felt what I imagine those who heard Abraham Lincoln deliver The Gettysburg Address felt.

David Amram

#6. For nothing, not the sun, not the rain, not even the brightest star in the darkest sky, could begin to compare to the wonder of you.

Renee Ahdieh

#7. That's exactly why I was so dangerous - I didn't give up.

H.M. Ward

#8. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, given November 19, 1863 on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA

Abraham Lincoln

#9. Approach the world with sympathy and compassion, just don't take any of it very seriously.

Kate Baggott

#10. At Beth Israel there had been Acinetobacter baumannii, which was resistant to vancomycin. "That's how you know it's a hospital infection," I recall being told by a doctor I asked at Columbia Presbyterian. "If it's resistant to vanc it's hospital. Because vanc only gets used in hospital settings.

Joan Didion

#11. The present moment is significant, not as the bridge between past and future, but by reason of its contents
contents which can fill our emptiness and become ours, if we are capable of receiving them.

Dag Hammarskjold

#12. I was born and raised in New York City, Manhattan, uptown.

Ana Ortiz