Quotes About The Middle Colonies

#1. In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.

Albert Bushnell Hart

#2. Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man's president.

Henry Louis Gates

#3. Interpreting myself, I always read
Myself into my books. I clearly need
Some help. But all who climb on their own way
Carry my image, too, into the breaking day.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. But in the end it comes down to a matter of respect, and the simplest way that respect is communicated is through tone of voice, and the most corsive tone of voice that a doctor can assume is a dominant tone.

Malcolm Gladwell

#5. For a while, some schools across the country were banning spelling bees. For obvious reasons, of course - steroids

Craig Ferguson

#6. In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.

Jean Paul

#7. What I find really attractive is something that's going to be a little dangerous. Something that might get me into trouble; you know, you turn up in London and you've just rewritten Dickens. And, of course, then you think, 'What have I done?'

Peter Carey

#8. Cynicism ... is the trade-mark of failure ...

Katherine Cecil Thurston

#9. I think I've got something when I'm onscreen, but that's nothing to do with acting or talent.

Julie Christie

#10. I'm social and I meet people and talk to people but I'm not looking for the ideal person to fit my mold and to raise my family with yet. I'm just kind of doing my thing and learning from the people I'm around and who I cross paths with.

Picabo Street

#11. There can be no happiness without good health

Voltaire

#12. You must bring great resolve to your work. It's not all a bed of roses.

Douglas Conant

#13. I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four ...

Judy Blume

#14. In St. Louis one of the girls had said to her, Just pretend you're pretty so they can pretend you're pretty.

Marilynne Robinson

#15. Humans are caught - in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too - in a net of good and evil.

John Steinbeck