Americans Coming Together Quotes

#1. But this convention is about more than re-nominating President Obama. It's about Americans coming together to build one economy - not from the top down, but from the middle class out and the bottom up.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#2. The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge in this area.

Bill Gates

#3. I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.

Adam Sandler

#4. Life on the road is murder. It's as though life begins and ends when you have your horn in your mouth.

Gerry Mulligan

#5. God always keeps His promises.

Jim George

#6. We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature.

Rachel Carson

#7. We're at the end of the cycle. You've all known it since childhood. In the Hindu division of the ages, this is the Kali Yuga, the dark age. At the end of a cycle, Vishnu takes incarnation as a person. Vishnu is that aspect of God that preserves and protects life. When Vishnu leaves, Shiva comes.

Frederick Lenz

#8. Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it, genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

Lord Chesterfield

#9. If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don't believe, take the first step all the same, for you are bidden to take it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#10. For what need would I have to say, 'I believe,' if I already knew?

(from The Church is One)

Aleksey Khomiakov

#11. I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me.

Edward Carpenter

#12. I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would absolutely not want anyone to find it beautiful or good without a thought.

Vincent Van Gogh