Quotes About Deborah Sampson

#1. I've got a history in my life of difficult times.

James Nesbitt

#2. Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology, a driver of technology, and an emergent effect of technology.

Howard Rheingold

#3. As an overruling providence may succeed our wishes, let us rear an offspring in every respect worthy to fill the most illustrious stations of their predecessors.

Deborah Sampson

#4. Why can I not fight for my country too?

Deborah Sampson

#5. When honor dies - when trust is a useless thing - what use is life?

Diane Duane

#6. Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control - I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe, and clandestinely, or by stealth, grasped an opportunity, which custom and the world seemed to deny, as a natural privilege.

Deborah Sampson

#7. The more rhymethere isin poetry the more dangerof its tricking the writer into something other than the urge in the beginning.

Carl Sandburg

#8. As I was born to be unfortunate, my sun soon clouded.

Deborah Sampson

#9. If you want to be the best,
Work hardier than the rest.
If you don't want to be the best,
Just work like the rest.

Bob Stinson

#10. November 11, 1802, I arrived at Judge Patterson's at Lisle. This respectable family treated me with every mark of distinction and friendship, and likewise all the people did the same. I really want for words to express my gratitude.

Deborah Sampson

#11. You have to be careful around miracles, around extraordinary highs, because they're disruptive to your regular life...you have to cope when they end.

Anya Ulinich

#12. I live a dramatic life, it's just not on TV yet.

Marc Wallice

#13. It is easier to fall off of a ladder than to climb one.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#14. 'Santa Monica' was a big song, and I always knew it would be radio friendly. But it's not a defining song for me, though for a lot of people it is.

Art Alexakis

#15. What shall I say further? Shall I not stop short and leave to your imaginations to portray the tragic deeds of war? Is it not enough that I here leave it even to unexperience to fancy the hardships, the anxieties, the dangers, even of the best life of a soldier?

Deborah Sampson

#16. In whatever I may be thought to have been unnatural, unwise and indelicate, it is now my most fervent desire it may have a suitable impression on you - and on me, a penitent for every wrong thought and step.

Deborah Sampson

#17. I became an actor in that important drama with an inflexible resolution to persevere through the last scene, when we might be permitted and acknowledged to enjoy what we had so nobly declared we would possess, or lose with our lives - Freedom and Independence!

Deborah Sampson

#18. In any case, ideals are something we strive for; they are somewhere on the horizon of our efforts; they provide meaning and direction; they are not, however, static quotas that we either fulfill or do not.

Vaclav Havel

#19. I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery paths of female delicacy.

Deborah Sampson

#20. I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous and reformed in life can derive the greatest and most salutary truths and impressions.

Deborah Sampson

#21. Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost!

Deborah Sampson

#22. Character is fate. (Destiny).

Heraclitus

#23. On the whole, as we readily acquiesce in the acknowledgment that the field and the cabinet are the proper spheres assigned to our Masters and our Lords, may we also deserve the dignified title and encomium of Mistress and Lady in our kitchens and in our parlours.

Deborah Sampson

#24. The days are cold, the nights are long, The North wind sings a doleful song; Then hush again upon my breast; All merry things are now at rest, Save thee, my pretty love!

Dorothy Wordsworth

#25. As you begin to look deeply into the mystery of your own evolution, in place of good and evil you will find only stories, finished or unfinished.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#26. I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe.

Deborah Sampson

#27. There are bands, like R.E.M., who want to have 17 records, and some are terrible and some are great. I don't know if people think like that anymore. Things are more atomized now.

Travis Morrison