Top 15 Jervis Quotes
#1. Mark Twain married the daughter of one of New York State's leading Abolitionists, Jervis Langdon, who helped Frederick Douglass who became the great Negro leader to escape from slavery.
Hal Holbrook
#2. She felt that she had revealed something to Cat, and with revealing something about oneself there always comes a sense of lightening of the load that we all carry; the load of being ourselves.
Alexander McCall Smith
#3. I was really lucky that, through my 20s, I got to work with some amazing people, and I tried to sit back and watch and learn.
James Badge Dale
#4. We belong to each other now really and truly, no make-believe. Doesn't it seem queer for me to belong to someone at last? It seems very, very sweet. And I shall never let you be sorry for a single instant.
Yours, for ever and ever,
Judy
Jean Webster
#5. For the winds that awakened the stars are blowing through my blood.
W.B.Yeats
#6. The tone of his remarks filled me with a burning desire to kick Mr. Horridge; but that being impracticable, I should certainly, if left to myself, have told him to go to the devil and forthwith walked out of the house.
R. Austin Freeman
#7. Ah yes, if I could have a magic cloak
to whisk me off to foreign lands
I should not trade it for the richest robes,
nor for the mantle of a king.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#8. No engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and the deliberate consideration of any advice that he may receive; and nothing so fully reveals his incapacity as a pretentious assumption of knowledge, claiming to understand everything.
John B. Jervis
#9. We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.
Ellen G. White
#10. No price is too great to preserve the health of the fleet.
John B. Jervis
#11. Whatever your life's pursuit
art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be
you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#12. The operating management, providing as it does for the care of near thirty thousand miles of railway, is far more important than that for construction in which there is comparatively little doing.
John B. Jervis
#13. Perceptions of the world and of other actors diverge from reality in patterns that we can detect and for reasons that we can understand.
Robert Jervis
