Fredrika Bremer Quotes

#1. These Americans believe that everything is possible ...

Fredrika Bremer

#2. The upper 1 percent, the people down on Wall Street, the corporate executives, they're the people that control this economy.

Michael Moore

#3. Gentle feelings produce profoundly beneficial effects upon stern natures. It is the spring rain which melts the ice-covering of the earth, and causes it to open to the beams of heaven.

Fredrika Bremer

#4. At a certain depth all bosoms communicate, all hearts are one.

Fredrika Bremer

#5. I have not, in general, much belief in the ability of woman as a creative artist. Unwritten lyrics, as [Ralph Waldo] Emerson said once when we conversed on this subject, should be her forte.

Fredrika Bremer

#6. Solitude gives you the ideas and the motivation to make you want to collaborate.

Nitin Sawhney

#7. Tyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species, they really become so, lose their participation with their kind, and in mimicking the god dwindle into the brute.

William Hazlitt

#8. I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

Dave Barry

#9. If you look closely you'll find all my lovers inscribed on my skin.

Jill Ciment

#10. There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.

Fredrika Bremer

#11. Besides offering desirable products, the Free People brand continue to produce some of the most compelling imagery and customer engagement in the industry.

Richard Hayne

#12. People seek for the spiritual champagne, but they mistake what it is ...

Fredrika Bremer

#13. If these slaves had only any future, anything to hope for, to strive for, to live for, any prospect before them, then i should non deplore their lot but nothing, nothing.

Fredrika Bremer

#14. Addison is my consort and as such she is under my protection both day and night. I will ill anyone attempting to harm her. Is that clear?

Evangeline Anderson

#15. For the first time I tasted this tropical fruit, which people here are so fond of ... I could have fancied I was biting into soap. I have a notion that we shall not become very good friends, the banana and I.

Fredrika Bremer

#16. The humble soul is like the violet, which grows low, hangs the head downward, and hides itself with its own leaves.

Fredrika Bremer

#17. I have never as yet gone a step to see a literary lion; but I would go a considerable way to see Emerson, this pioneer in the moral forests of the New World, who applies his axe to the roots of the old trees to hew them down and to open the paths for new planting.

Fredrika Bremer

#18. Serenity of manners is the zenith of beauty.

Fredrika Bremer

#19. The human heart is like heaven; the more angels the more room.

Fredrika Bremer

#20. A fly is a very light burden; but if it were perpetually to return and settle on one's nose, it might weary us of our very lives.

Fredrika Bremer

#21. North America is not altogether to blame with regard to her Indians. If the Indian had been more susceptible to higher culture, violence and arms would not have been used against him, as is now the case.

Fredrika Bremer

#22. If you will learn the seriousness of life, and its beauty also, live for your husband; make him happy.

Fredrika Bremer