Quakers In America Quotes

#1. This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious protest ... In the eighteenth century, a few dissenting Mennonites and Quakers in America began to call for abolition, as did some freethinkers like Thomas Paine.

Christopher Hitchens

#2. If you have the language gift, you can use it as a tool.

Nicola Griffith

#3. Long, I am woman who speaks but one language, the language of the fall
discontentment and self-condemnation, the critical eye and the never satisfied.

Ann Voskamp

#4. My best album is called In Search Of A Song. That was my best shot right there. My finest hour, as they say. I could listen to the whole thing all the way through. There's nothing really crammed into it.

Tom T. Hall

#5. Poetry, a speaking picture ... to teach and delight

Philip Sidney

#6. So, am I a genius?

John Marsden

#7. - I probably shouldn't tell you this, I said.
- Kay-Kay, those are my six favorite words in the English language.

Amor Towles

#8. When working with the Universal Laws you are working with the laws of manifestation, not instant gratification ...

Jennifer O'Neill

#9. [President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be
I shouldn't say this at Christmastime
but the next messiah.

Barbara Walters

#10. Anyone who has been betrayed carries that betrayal inside himself. How

Jan-Philipp Sendker

#11. Give the world your best and you will get the best out of the world.

Zig Ziglar

#12. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions

Daniel Webster

#13. Money does not smell of the mire whence it came; it has the glorious scent of what will be.

Catulle Mendes