Samuel F B Morse Quotes

#1. 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

#2. What God hath wrought?

Samuel Morse

#3. How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.

Edwin Way Teale

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

Samuel Morse

#5. This did not prevent him from going to print shop every morning and working as conscientiously as ever, following the advice of Yochanan ben Zakkai: 'If you are planting an olive tree when you learn that the Messiah has come, finish planting the olive tree and then go to greet the messiah.

Marek Halter

#6. forced to endure his nonsensical prattle any longer, "at least point me

Isabella Amaris

#7. [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

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

Samuel Morse

#9. 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

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

Harold Holzer

#11. It's very heartening to see people who I used to do music with still doing it.

Greg Saunier

#12. Love can smack you like a seagull, and pour all over your feet like junk mail.

Daniel Handler

#13. Satan, the god of all dissension, stirreth up daily newsects and last of all, which of all other I should never have forseen or once suspected, he hath raised up a sect such as teach ... that men should not be terrified by the Law, but gently exhorted by the preaching of the grace of Christ.

Martin Luther

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. There is a time to act, and a time to wait, to listen, to observe. Then understanding and clarity can grow. From understanding, action arises that is purposeful, firm, and powerful.

Charles Eisenstein

#17. 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

#18. On the anvil of August, the city lay paralyzed, stunned into stupidity by the heat.

Janet Fitch

#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. Never spoke of it. He took the miracle to his grave. All Andrew ever said about the voyage was that a nun had taught him how to play mah-jongg. Something must have happened during one of their games.

John Irving

#21. Science and art are not opposed.

Samuel Morse

#22. 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

#23. 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