Illinois History Quotes

#1. The Church is a family expecting guests.

Andy Stanley

#2. Yoko [Ono] was showing me some of these Haiku in the original. The difference between them and Long fellow is immense. Instead of a long flowery poem the Haiku would say 'Yellow flower in white bowl on wooden table' which gives you the whole picture.

John Lennon

#3. I would add that I consider myself and how I do things as a kind of system which, by definition, I always follow.

Ed Seykota

#4. I have a production company called Home Theater Films which makes faith-based films.

Corbin Bernsen

#5. Regardless of who has betrayed you and what promises they didn't keep- God is firm in His commitment to you.

Beth Moore

#6. Well, personally, I've seen enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned that it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.

Albert Camus

#7. If the world is where we hide from ourselves, what do we do when the world is no longer accessible? We invent a false name, invent a destiny, purchase a firearm through the mail. (148)

Don DeLillo

#8. The best advice I never got ... I don't know if it would have done any good, but to be more confident with girls in school. I actually had a couple of girlfriends, but I was still pretty timid and it was hard to ask girls out.

Chris Parnell

#9. Women, in my experience, if they once reach the determination to commit suicide, usually wish to reveal the state of mind that led to the fatal action. They covet the limelight.

Agatha Christie

#10. I am thankful for a new day, to live, to love, to talk, to smile, to laugh to walk, to dream, to share, to write, to hope, to pray, to praise God and to fulfill my purpose of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. From the 1930s through the 1960s, black people across the country were largely cut out of the legitimate home-mortgage market through means both legal and extralegal. Chicago whites employed every measure, from 'restrictive covenants' to bombings, to keep their neighborhoods segregated.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#12. Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#13. You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free
but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.

Franz Grillparzer

#14. With each day he felt the barriers melting. He let them melt. Because of her genuine laugh, because he caught her one afternoon sleeping with her face in the middle of a book, because he knew that she would win.

Sarah J. Maas

#15. North Lawndale's Jewish People's Institute actively encouraged blacks to move into the neighborhood, seeking to make it a 'pilot community for interracial living.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#16. The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.

John Cotton Dana

#17. They say in old stories that you can't discover new lands without losing sight of the shore for a long time.

Laurie Gough

#18. The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation.

John George Nicolay