Beautiful For Spacious Skies Quotes

#1. O beautiful for spacious skies, ... O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved, And mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refine, Til all success be nobleness And every gain divine!

Katharine Lee Bates

#2. Oh beautiful for spacious skies, but now those skies are threatening. They're beating plowshares into swords for this tired old man we elected king.

Don Henley

#3. O, beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties,
Above the fruited plain ...

Katharine Lee Bates

#4. A nation has to take its natural course
Of Progress round and round in circles
From King to Mob to King to Mob to King
Until the eddy of it eddies out.

Robert Frost

#5. I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.

Theodore Bikel

#6. The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.

Tullian Tchividjian

#7. Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.

Rex Stout

#8. On the one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction ... but, on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either.

John Calvin

#9. Because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye ... I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate, whose kinky hair could not form ponytails, could also exist in literature.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#10. I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

Tanith Lee

#11. Everyone says social media is a unicorn, but maybe it's just a horse?

Jay Baer

#12. Be wary of someone who has never failed, or seem to have no faults... Too good to be true usually is. Perfection hides something.

Henry Cloud

#13. I don't like to lose-at anything ... Yet I've grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God's reward, then losing is how he teaches us.

Serena Williams