Top 100 Raleigh's Quotes
#1. The New World's sons from England's breast we drew
Such milk as bids remember whence we came,
Proud of her past wherefrom our future grew,
This window we inscribe with Raleigh's fame.
James Russell Lowell
#2. I hear Raleigh's new accounting business isn't doing well. Maybe up in New York or somewhere it's a good thing, but in Jackson, Mississippi, people just don't care to do business with a rude, condescending asshole.
Kathryn Stockett
#3. I met people when we lived down in Raleigh who'd ask where I grew up, and I'd say about two hours west of Asheville, and they'd say they didn't know there was any North Carolina two hours west of Asheville. It was in many ways an isolated place.
Charles Frazier
#4. Our souls, piercing through the impurity of flesh, behold the highest heaven, and thence bring knowledge to contemplate the ever-during, glory and termless joy.
Walter Raleigh
#5. Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf,
And can be bought with nothing but with self.
Walter Raleigh
#6. Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.
Walter Raleigh
#7. Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not;
I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.
Walter Raleigh
#8. There were a number of early water-powered mills around Green Hill. Duncan Smith, Berry McDonald, Thomas Ross, Isham Richardson, and Enoch Raleigh Kennedy had gristmills on Cow Pen Creek.
William Lindsey McDonald
#9. Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.
Walter Raleigh
#11. An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake.
Walter Raleigh
#12. Thou may be sure that he who will tell thee of thy faults is thy friend, for he ventures thy dislike and doth hazard thy hatred.
Walter Raleigh
#13. Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue.
Walter Raleigh
#14. We have nothing less to do than to get inside of whole peoples and change their motives and dispositions.
John Raleigh Mott
#15. In fact, being a unique individual is as much of a farce as trying to be like everyone else. Maybe more.
Nora Raleigh Baskin
#16. Potatoes came to Europe from the New World in the early sixteenth century. Sir Francis Drake is thought to have introduced the potato to England, and shortly afterward Sir Walter Raleigh tried planting them on his Irish estates. When
Ryan Hackney
#17. I am a former Kleagle [recruiter] of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County. The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia. It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state in the union.
Robert Byrd
#18. Even such is Time, which takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, and all we have,
And pays us but with age and dust;
Who in the dark and silent grave,
When we have wandered all our ways,
Shuts up the story of our days.
Walter Raleigh
#19. Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God himself beautified with the title of his own image and similitude.
Walter Raleigh
#20. No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.
Walter Raleigh
#21. Gascoigne, Ben Jonson, Greville, Raleigh, Donne,
Poets who wrote great poems, one by one,
And spaced by many years, each line an act
Through which few labor, which no men retract.
This passion is the scholar's heritage
Yvor Winters
#22. If an atomic bomb fell on Raleigh, it wouldn't be news in Benson unless some of the debris and ashes fell on Benson.
Chip Heath
#23. And what people see the most is his silence, because some kinds of silence is actually visible.
Nora Raleigh Baskin
#24. When you fall in love with a work of art, you'd die to meet the artist. I am a student of the galleries of Pacific sunsets, full moon rises on the ocean, the clouds from an airplane, autumn forests in Raleigh, first fallen snows.
And I'm dying to meet the artist.
Yasmin Mogahed
#25. War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.
Walter Raleigh
#26. The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this
the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.
Walter Raleigh
#27. She is the rock 'n' roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it's gonna be the Beatles.
Paul McCartney
#28. The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
Walter Raleigh
#30. I shall never be persuaded that God hath shut up all light of learning within the lantern of Aristotle's brain.
Walter Raleigh
#31. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.
Walter Raleigh
#32. Give my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.
Walter Raleigh
#33. The most adventurous I've been was doing Raleigh International when I was 20.
Rupert Evans
#34. God is absolutely good; and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.
Walter Raleigh
#35. Modesty is good. But take your credit. You can't always count on other people to offer it.
Alex Irvine
#36. Passions are liken'd best to floods and streams:
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;
So, when affection yields discourse, it seems
The bottom is but shallow whence they come.
They that are rich in words, in words discover
Walter Raleigh
#37. What's chumming?" I asked, wondering if it was some old English nautical term for making friends.
Raleigh Blake
#38. So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.
Walter Raleigh
#39. Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.
Walter Raleigh
#40. The Wood is that that makes the gallows tree;
The Weed is that that strings the hangman's bag;
The Wag, my pretty knave, betokens thee.
Walter Raleigh
#41. A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.
Walter Raleigh
#43. Take special care that thou never trust any friend or servant with any matter that may endanger thine estate; for so shalt thou make thyself a bond-slave to him that thou trustest, and leave thyself always to his mercy.
Walter Raleigh
#44. I am aware that those hateful persons called Original Researchers now maintain that Raleigh was not the man; but to them I turn a deaf ear.
James M. Barrie
#45. It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.
Walter Raleigh
#46. Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.
Walter Raleigh
#47. Romance goes like this: Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl again. The end. It can't be any other way.
Nora Raleigh Baskin
#48. The journey of a lifetime is within, you are your own destination. Rick Jarow
Brian O'Raleigh
#49. There never was a man of solid understanding, whose apprehensions are sober, and by a pensive inspection advised, but that he hath found by an irresistible necessity one true God and everlasting being.
Walter Raleigh
#50. If all the world and love were young,
And truth in every shepherd's tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move
To live with thee, and be thy love.
Walter Raleigh
#51. Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.
Walter Raleigh
#52. In subsequent years the groups you named had important roles in educating people about the real issues in Washington and Raleigh, and within the Democratic Party.
Jesse Helms
#53. Youth is the opportunity to do something and to be somebody.
Walter Raleigh
#54. No one can take less pains than to hold his tongue. Hear much, and speak little; for the tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and greatest evil that is done in the world.
Walter Raleigh
#55. I have had almost every job under the sun, it feels like. One of the first jobs I took was as a door-to-door pest control salesman in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Shay Carl
#56. Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!
Walter Raleigh
#57. I became involved in a residential school for the blind in Raleigh - the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh.
Ronnie Milsap
#58. If thy friends be of better quality than thyself, thou mayest be sure of two things; first, they will be more careful to keep thy counsel, because they have more to lose than thou hast; the second, they will esteem thee for thyself, and not for that which thou dost possess.
Walter Raleigh
#59. When the grand twelve million jury of our sins and sinful fury, 'Gainst our souls black verdicts give, Christ pleads his death, and then we live. Be thou my speaker, taintless pleader, unblotted lawyer, true proceeder.
Walter Raleigh
#60. All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.
Walter Raleigh
#61. Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.
Walter Raleigh
#62. A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enenemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy ... so it was, I think, with Dryden.
Walter Raleigh
#63. The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.
Walter Raleigh
#64. Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.
Walter Raleigh
#65. As the President has indicated, my life has been a life of travel - for 60 years constantly moving over the wide world on journeys which first and last have taken me to 83 countries, and, what is more significant, to most of them again and again.
John Raleigh Mott
#66. Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons that are enemies to that enterprise, doth frame a state of short perseverance.
Walter Raleigh
#67. Courage is contagious: When one person of courage stands up, others are affected and stand up with him
Nora Raleigh Baskin
#69. Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously of their designs.
Walter Raleigh
#70. It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.
Walter Raleigh
#71. Our shipping and sea service is our best and safest defence as being the only fortification and rampart of England.
Walter Raleigh
#72. There are many, many different worlds to live in. And sometimes there is no connection from one to another.
Nora Raleigh Baskin
#73. Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice.
Walter Raleigh
#74. Desire attained is not desire,
But as the cinders of the fire.
Walter Raleigh
#75. Would Shakespeare and Raleigh have done their best, would that galaxy have shone so bright in the heavens had there been no Elizabeth on the throne?
Amos Bronson Alcott
#76. But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.
Walter Raleigh
#77. I was terrified of him but at the same time wanted him to desire me. I wanted him to care for me and protect me.
Lydia Kelly
#78. Will read a poem by Sir Walter Raleigh at his grandmother's funeral.
"Pondering the joys we had, listen & keep very still. If the lowing from the hill or the tolling of the bell do not
serve to break the spell, listen: you may be allowed to hear my laughter from a cloud.
Lynne Branard
#79. Your enjoyment only adds to my pleasure, but don't forget that I'm forcing you to do this.
Lydia Kelly
#80. The cavalry, in particular, were not friendly to the aeroplane, which it was believed, would frighten the horses.
Walter Alexander Raleigh
#81. The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.
Walter Raleigh
#84. Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.
Walter Raleigh
#85. How few successful men are interesting! Hannibal, Alcibiades, with Raleigh, Mithridates, and Napoleon, who would compare them for a moment with their mere conquerors?
Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham
#86. Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all.
Walter Raleigh
#87. PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams:
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;
Walter Raleigh
#88. If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.
Walter Raleigh
#89. The better country club operated on the principle that Raleigh mattered, that its old families were fine ones, and that they needed a place where they could enjoy one another's company without being pawed at. Had we not found this laughable, our country club might have felt desperate.
David Sedaris
#90. Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.
Walter Raleigh
#92. But really, if you ask me, there is only one kid of plot. One. Stuff happens. That's it.
Nora Raleigh Baskin
#93. I am the monarch of the sea, The Ruler of the Queen's Navee, Whose praise Great Britain loudly chants And we are his sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts!
Walter Raleigh
#94. Trust few men; above all, keep your follies to yourself.
Walter Raleigh
#95. I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.
Walter Raleigh
#96. These were such friendly people, they didn't notice how crabby we were, and before you knew it everyone was as happy as they were.
Nora Raleigh Baskin
#98. I've been out on the book tour going through Pittsburgh, St Louis and Cleveland, Dayton and Orlando, Raleigh-Durham. I sign many books for people.
Jamie Farr
#99. It is, it is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.
Walter Raleigh
#100. Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.
Walter Raleigh
