Quotes About Samuel Morse

#1. My creed on the subject of slavery is short. Slavery per se is not sin. It is a social condition ordained from the beginning of the world for the wisest purposes, benevolent and disciplinary, by Divine Wisdom.

Samuel Morse

#2. You were right," said the Master impressed by the neatness of Korovyov's work, "when you said: no documents, no person. So that means I don't exist since I don't have any documents.

Mikhail Bulgakov

#3. Alas, the very name of picture produces a sadness of heart I cannot describe.

Samuel Morse

#4. I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or the culture of the music. But for some reason it did something to me - it resonated.

Eric Clapton

#5. Now, what sort of person would write a scene where a young man stumbles upon a castle full only of beautiful young women? Answer: ME!

Michael Palin

#6. Most rebellions and revolutions end up with the oppressed group coming to power and inflicting the same evils they endured on some new group that they are now oppressing, I argued. Violence, hoarding power and resources, that's the basic human M.O.

Norman Ollestad

#7. Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#8. [It would not be long] ere the whole surface of this country would be channelled for those nerves which are to diffuse, with the speed of thought, a knowledge of all that is occurring throughout the land, making, in fact, one neighborhood of the whole country.

Samuel Morse

#9. Education without religion is in danger of substituting wild theories for the simple commonsense rules of Christianity.

Samuel Morse

#10. Every child has a dream, to pursue the dream is in every child's hand to make it a reality. One's invention is another's tool ...

Samuel Morse

#11. Getting air may have determined the way we got our bodies.

Christopher McDougall

#12. Samuel FB Morse's SECOND question over the telegraph was, "Have you any news?

Harold Holzer

#13. When a person feels encouraged, he can face the impossible and overcome incredible adversity.

John C. Maxwell

#14. What God hath wrought?

Samuel Morse

#15. Now came Dr Foxcastle, sailing magisterially around the corner like a fat, black ship.

Susanna Clarke

#16. I have no wish to be remembered as a painter, for I never was a painter; my idea of that profession was perhaps too exalted; I may say, is too exalted. I leave it to others more worthy to fill the niches of art.

Samuel Morse

#17. If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity.

Samuel Morse

#18. My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price.

Samuel Morse

#19. The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.

Samuel Morse

#20. Science and art are not opposed.

Samuel Morse

#21. A man will have success in the place where he diligently works

Sunday Adelaja

#22. The stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet and a great many Hamlets murdered Shakespeare.

Robert Morse

#23. Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, said that whenever he could not see his way clearly, he knelt down and prayed for light and understanding.

Nathan Eldon Tanner

#24. The great method of prayer is to have none. If in going to prayer one can form in oneself a pure capacity for receiving the spirit of God, that will suffice for all method.

Jane Frances De Chantal

#25. My fan base just growing and growing. People know that I'm not just coming and going. They know that I'm here to stay.

Shy Glizzy

#26. Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.

Samuel Morse

#27. My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

Edward Weston

#28. I think what makes Narnia a magical place is that it offers escapism - escapism from a world that is so different from the reality known by the characters and the reality known by the fans.

Will Poulter

#29. I love you more than you could possibly imagine."
"My imagination is endless,"
"Good. So is my love.

Kim Holden