Miles Standish Quotes

#1. We have need to be as sturdy pioneers still as Miles Standish, or Church, or Lovewell. We are to follow on another trail, it is true, but one as convenient for ambushes. What if the Indians are exterminated, are not savages as grim prowling about the clearings today?

Henry David Thoreau

#2. If there's one thing I can't bear, it's when hundreds of old men come creeping in through the window in the middle of the night and throw all manner of garbage over me. I can't bear that.

Peter Cook

#3. Becoming a leader wasn't easy. It had to be earned, and that only happened over time.

Veronica Rossi

#4. Truman left in the middle of an unpopular war, a war of choice. Truman didn't have to go into South Korea. And he was reviled and ridiculed for the stalemate that resulted. Now, he's seen as one of the great presidents of the 20th century.

Charles Krauthammer

#5. There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

George Washington

#6. He who travels in the Barque of Peter had better not look too closely into the engine room.

Ronald Knox

#7. It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East.

Richard H. Davis

#8. The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#9. The fact is that we like each other very much, and we of course see each other on stage all the time, but this means more time to spend together, and that's great. We couldn't be happier.

Bill Irwin

#10. Prejudice of any kind are an insult to intelligence

Miguel El Portugues

#11. Often we blame a region's religion when the oppression instead may be rooted in its culture. Yet, that acknowledged, it's also true that ... it is often cited by the oppressors.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#12. We want to raise our children so that they can take a sense of pleasure in both their own heritage and the diversity of others.

Fred Rogers

#13. I love to travel. During normal workdays, sometimes it feels like I have to bludgeon ideas out of my soul - but when I'm traveling, relaxed and unpressured, the ideas just spill out.

Peter Lerangis