Top 14 Reference Letter Quotes
#1. When I was abandoned by everybody, in my greatest weakness, trembling and afraid of death, when I was persecuted by this wicked world, then I often felt most surely the divine power in this name, Jesus Christ ... So, by God's grace, I will live and die for that name.
Martin Luther
#2. The only Commandment I ever obeyed - 'Consider the Lilies.
Emily Dickinson
#3. Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Fanny Brice
#4. ... if geometry were as much opposed to our passions and present interests as is ethics, we should contest it and violate I but little less, notwithstanding all the demonstrations of Euclid and Archimedes ...
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
#5. Whatever you do, if you do it hard enough you'll enjoy it. The important thing is to work and work hard.
David Rockefeller
#6. She quoted the Reverend James Forbes as saying, Nobody gets into heaven without a letter of reference from the poor.
Anne Lamott
#8. We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.
Mary McDonnell
#9. There are ten thousand people in the United States in a persistent vegetative state. Just enough to start a small town. Think of them as veggie-burghers.
George Carlin
#10. Private property ... is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.
Benjamin Franklin
#11. I never wrote anything down. I never kept a diary, never kept a journal. I did write one letter home about touring with the Doors that I used as a reference for the book for some details there, and then I was glad I had that, but that was it.
Linda Ronstadt
#12. A letter today from a Mrs Gladys Freeman, 45 Sebastopol Terrace, Blackpool. 'Sir, reference the room you had here during the party conference season. Well, we know what it is. We know who done it. But for heaven's sake tell us where it is!
Tony Benn
#13. People who refuse to let go often make small requests that appear reasonable, like Tommy's letter of reference, though the real purpose of such requests is to cement attachment or gain new reasons for contact.
Gavin De Becker
