Quotes About John Winthrop

#1. One of the most persistent images in American urbanism is that of the proverbial city on a hill, as first envisioned on these shores by the Puritan John Winthrop, via the Gospel according to Saint Matthew.

Martin Filler

#2. There's a guy who won't be in contention. There's another one I don't have to worry about.

Jack Nicklaus

#3. I said: "He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much."
"But he is a Beast," said Father helplessly.
I saw that he was weakening, and wishing only to comfort him I said, "Cannot a Beast be tamed?

Robin McKinley

#4. Our country - whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less; - still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, and to be defended by all our hands.

Robert Charles Winthrop

#5. A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government.

John Winthrop

#6. If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative.

Steven Johnson

#7. their own children.

George Orwell

#8. Open Everything' is everything
it is our mind, our heart, our soul, our destiny.

Robert David Steele

#9. A liberty to that only which is good, just, and honest.

John Winthrop

#10. In sandy soil, when deep you delve, you reach the springs below; The more you learn, the freer streams of wisdom flow.

Thiruvalluvar

#11. Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.

John Winthrop

#12. 28So husbands ought also to jlove their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; 29for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,

Anonymous

#13. We must delight in each other, make others conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body.

John Winthrop

#14. To love and live beloved is the soul's paradise.

John Winthrop

#15. The eyes of all people are upon us.

John Winthrop

#16. Love is the bond of perfection.

John Winthrop

#17. Hay una estrella mas abierta
que la palabra 'amapola'?
Is there a star more wide open
than the word 'poppy?

Pablo Neruda

#18. True liberty is not liberty to do evil as well as good.

John Winthrop

#19. When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.

Patricia Polacco

#20. The "happening" operates by creating an asymmetrical network of surprises, without climax or consummation, this is the alogism of dreams rather than the logic of most art.

Susan Sontag

#21. A woman of haughty and fierce carriage, of a nimble wit and active spirit, a very voluble tongue, more bold than a man.

John Winthrop