President James Monroe Quotes

#1. You need other people, Madeline. There's a great freedom in knowing that. And accepting that. And letting people in. Letting them help you.

Blake Nelson

#2. To create peace, be a soldier of peace with a pen not a soldier of war with a gun.

Debasish Mridha

#3. I remember one time when all the nuns in my Catholic grade school got around in a semicircle, me and Mom in the middle, and they said, 'Mrs. Farley, the children at school are laughing at Christopher, not with him.' I thought, 'Who cares? As long as they're laughing.'

Chris Farley

#4. I wanted to meet the people, to get involved in the city, to make Tokyo mine.

Jacob Aue Sobol

#5. The waitress, a plain brunette disguised as a pretty brunette...

Gillian Flynn

#6. O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over me, and taught me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing.

Baha'u'llah

#7. Try to understand long before you move to judgment.

Michael Adam Hamilton

#8. The Tom Strong thing was totally for the money. I plan to get looser after I finish this Maggie saga.

Jaime Hernandez

#9. Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.

Nadine Gordimer

#10. Peace is the best time for improvement and preparation of every kind; it is in peace that our commerce flourishes most, that taxes are most easily paid, and that the revenue is most productive.

James Monroe

#11. The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#12. For thirty-six of the forty years between 1800 and 1840, either Jefferson or a self-described adherent of his served as president of the United States: James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, and Martin Van Buren.32 (John Quincy Adams, a one-term president, was the single exception.)

Jon Meacham