Top 100 Stanton's Quotes
#1. The future historian will rank him as one of the heroes of the nineteenth century.
{Stanton's opinion of the great Robert Ingersoll}
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#2. I think everyone feels alone in their sadness, and there's a certain value to hearing other people's sad stories.
Brandon Stanton
#3. Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#4. We cannot accept any code or creed that uniformly defrauds woman of all her natural rights.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#6. I don't think there's any better education than learning the intimate details of the lives of people who you most admire.
Brandon Stanton
#7. We're all going to keep telling love stories, we're all going to tell hero stories. It's all a question of what your own thumbprint, your own DNA, is, and what it brings to the table that makes it unique.
Andrew Stanton
#8. Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.
Andrew Stanton
#9. Two pure souls fused into one by an impassioned love-friends, counselors-a mutual support and inspiration to each other amid life's struggles, must know the highest human happiness;-this is marriage; and this is the only cornerstone of an enduring home.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#10. The thing about working at Pixar is that everyone around you is smarter and funnier and cleverer than you and they all think the same about everyone else. It's a nice problem to have.
Andrew Stanton
#11. This world o' God's is brighter Than we ever dream or know; Its burdens growin' lighter- An' it's Love that makes 'em so! An' I'm thankful that I'm livin' Where Love's blessedness I see, 'Neath a Heaven that's forgivin' Where the bells ring 'Home' to me!
Frank Lebby Stanton
#12. Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs!
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#13. Wherever I go, I just try to show normal life. If the work helps to dispel stereotypes, it's because I seek not to portray the extremities of a place, but the vast majority of people who are quite normal and are having normal life experiences.
Brandon Stanton
#14. In her present ignorance, woman's religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#15. So tell me about your dreams?" Libby wanted to know everything.
"Now that I have you, there's not much left.
Angie Stanton
#16. It's the rejection that is hard. It's not the interviewing that's hard. It's not the photography that's hard. It's, you know, approaching people all day long and having a good portion of those people reject you and some of them be rude.
Brandon Stanton
#17. Being a sci-fi geek myself and going to movies all my life, I came to the conclusion that there were really two camps of how robots have been designed. It's either the tin man, which is a human with metal skin, or it's an R2D2.
Andrew Stanton
#18. Shes's always been very accepting and patient with my trust issues. I've always had a hard time getting close. But no matter how many times I doubted, she just kept saying: 'I'm not going anywhere.
Brandon Stanton
#19. I'm homeless, and I'm an alcoholic. But I have a dream.'
'What's that?'
'I wanna go fishing.
Brandon Stanton
#20. I think it's important to try to get on a kid's level when taking their photo.
Brandon Stanton
#21. Sometimes it's hard not to fall in love with your friends.
Brandon Stanton
#22. Oh God, modern life with all its feelings ... We live in the most callous society ever, and all anybody talks about nowadays is getting in touch with their feelings ... The world has become one enormous group therapy session. It's a terrible bore. My motto is, 'Thank you for not sharing!
Jane Stanton Hitchcock
#23. In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it's great to see that somebody's still rocking the bus-on-a-string.
Brandon Stanton
#24. It's a very immersive and intense form of travel to walk around with an interpreter and stop random people on the street and ask them about their lives.
Brandon Stanton
#25. It's a good poem if I'm a different person when I'm finished reading it.
Brandon Stanton
#26. It's much more interesting to try and understand what binds two people together. why we stay with each other is much more of a mystery than why we don't.
Jane Stanton Hitchcock
#27. Interviewing someone is a very proactive process and requires taking a lot of agency into your own hands to get past people's general normal self-preservation mode.
Brandon Stanton
#28. Everyone in the full enjoyment of all the blessings of his life, in his normal condition, feels some individual responsibility forthe poverty of others. When the sympathies are not blunted by any false philosophy, one feels reproached by one's own abundance.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#29. Became postmaster general, and Edwin M. Stanton, Lincoln's "Mars," eventually became secretary
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#30. Did I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women's wrongs to be laid before the public? Did I not believe that women herself must do this work, for women alone understand the height, the depth, the breadth of her degradation.
- Seneca Falls Convention, 1848
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#31. I'm still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It's just not in their nature.
Andrew Stanton
#32. Mike Stanton is our preeminent aficionado and raconteur of Rhode Island's flamboyantly criminal political follies, and The Prince of Providence is the chronicle of a great American rogue, Mayor Buddy Cianci - a paragon of charisma and corruption.
Philip Gourevitch
#33. So long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, and character are subjects for ridicule and detraction.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#34. Some people is born at the start of a long hard row to hoe. Well, I am older than God's dog and been in this world a long time and it seems to me that right from the git-go, Larkin Stanton had the longest and hardest row I've ever seen.
Sheila Kay Adams
#35. Throughout this protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood, the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name of the Christian religion, and uniformly asked God's blessing on proceedings that would have put to shame an assembly of Hottentots.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#36. There's a mercurial nature, but more of a mysterious nature to women that I think is what makes them so attractive. And I think that that's what I love: Guys never seem to know when they've come too close and crossed the line, and then the temper comes.
Andrew Stanton
#37. People always say be true to yourself. But that's misleading, because there are two selves. There's your short term self, and there's your long term self. And if you're only true to your short term self, your long term self slowly decays.
Brandon Stanton
#39. Where does a man go when there are no more corners to turn, when he's running out of hope, out of luck, out of time?
Doug Stanton
#40. The most pivotal moments in people's lives revolve around emotions. Emotions make stories powerful.
Brandon Stanton
#41. Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#42. John [Lasseter] always said that he was Andy, and Joe [Ranft] and I were Sid, and I think that's true.
Andrew Stanton
#43. It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Boston harbor was the tea, woman's favorite beverage. The tobacco and whiskey, though heavily taxed, they clung to with the tenacity of the devil-fish.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#44. I remember my own life as a small boy, son of Jewish immigrants, in a janitor's flat on Orchard and Stanton streets on the Lower East Side of New York City. My father made pants and doubled as janitor of a tenement - before he made janitoring at $30 a month, plus rooms, a career.
Jacob K. Javits
#45. It's such a different spectrum of tragedies when you talk to people in developing countries.
Brandon Stanton
#46. It is fast becoming an article of political faith that financing America's public schools by way of the local property tax is a shame and a civic scandal.
M. Stanton Evans
#47. There's nothing that you like in this world that wasn't influenced by a bunch of key things; nothing came completely clean out of a vacuum.
Andrew Stanton
#48. Out of all the things in the world to emulate an ostrich isn't one of them.
Guy S. Stanton III
#49. Like the wells and springs of their island, like Hiro's clouds, the fountains of their eyes were empty now, dry as the cracked soil. Or perhaps their tears flowed inward, scalding their young hearts.
Edward Stanton
#50. Bibamus, moriendum est.
-Death's unavoidable, let's have a drink!
Mary Stanton
#51. That's what great art does - it inspires other artists to do great art, and that's what it should do.
Andrew Stanton
#52. The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#54. Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed.
Graham Stanton
#55. I know General Grant better than any other person in the country can know him. It was my duty to study him, and I did so day and night, when I saw him and when I did not see him, and now I tell you what I know, he cannot govern this country.
Edwin M. Stanton
#56. We as humans only learn through failure and if you fail along the way, take note of it then move on. This only gets easier as time goes on.
Kathy Stanton
#57. I don't like to interview people in front of their friends; they clam up.
Brandon Stanton
#58. I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.
Harry Dean Stanton
#59. God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#60. It seems that everywhere I go, people want the same things - security, education, family. It's just that so many people have no avenues through which to obtain these things.
Brandon Stanton
#61. Well, I have no problem with 3-D but I don't think it's necessarily a blanket requirement for every film.
Andrew Stanton
#62. Whenever you get a large body of work like 'Humans of New York,' a natural pathway becomes to put it between two covers. I wanted this to be a very nice keepsake. A lot of work went into it, and a lot of fans are attached to it.
Brandon Stanton
#63. Well, another female child is born into the world! Last Sunday afternoon, Harriot Eaton Stanton - oh! the little heretic thus to desecrate that holy holiday - opened her soft blue eyes on this mundane sphere.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#64. No matter how bad you think something is, when you look into it, it's always worse.
M. Stanton Evans
#65. Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#66. With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#68. I've received a lot of compliments. People come right up to me on the street. They recognize me.
Harry Dean Stanton
#69. If I had sat around and waited until I had an idea to be a successful photographer, I would still be in finance.
Brandon Stanton
#70. Recovery is about purpose and meaning in life, not "sobriety" and meetings.
Stanton Peele
#71. The 1850s proved to be the decade of the most prolific patent litigation in America's history. Lincoln himself was involved, as well as his most three prolific cabinet members: Chase, Seward and Stanton.
Darin Gibby
#72. Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#73. I've always felt like an artistic person. I can't draw or paint or sculpt. I never really had technical skills, but I've always felt like I appreciate really beautiful things, and part of taking a good photograph is being able to recognize beauty.
Brandon Stanton
#74. I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.
Andrew Stanton
#75. I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
M. Stanton Evans
#76. I poured out the torrent of my long-standing discontent and I challenged them to do and dare anything.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#77. Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#78. The sadness is under the thoughts. It's like when you're on a camping trip, and it's really cold, and you put on extra socks and an extra sweater, but you still can't get warm, because the coldness is in your bones.
Brandon Stanton
#79. Judging by everyone's excitement, this day will always be remembered at the loading dock as the day 'Larry made it on the internet'.
Brandon Stanton
#81. According to a 2007 assessment by Salary, the domestic labor of a woman who stays home to care for her children is worth an impressive $138,095 a year. (That's a three-percent raise from the $134,121 "earned" the year before.) By the way, that salary is compensation for a 91.6-hour work week,
Melissa Stanton
#83. Think of the inconvenience of vanishing as it were from your friends and, correspondents three times in one's natural life.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#84. The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#85. I've been a fan of movies longer than anything else. One thing I learned a long time ago is that you can't translate a book literally to the screen. It won't work because it's a different medium. And it would be the same in reverse.
Andrew Stanton
#86. A modern liberal is someone who doesn't care what you do, as long as it's compulsory.
M. Stanton Evans
#87. Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women's self development is self-sacrifice.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#88. The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination ... you can make feast of straw.
Jane Stanton Hitchcock
#89. I almost feel like it's an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.
Andrew Stanton
#91. It's amazing how much credit you can take, if you don't care about accomplishing anything.
M. Stanton Evans
#92. The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#93. Unpaid work never commands respect; it is the paid worker who has brought to the public mind conviction of woman's worth.
Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch
#94. Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity's sake, Amen.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#95. We have two parties here, and only two. One is the evil party, and the other is the stupid party. ... I'm very proud to be a member of the stupid party. ... Occasionally, the two parties get together to do something that's both evil and stupid. That's called bipartisanship.
M. Stanton Evans
#96. Of all the places I've been, India is the one that's on the top of my list to return to.
Brandon Stanton
#97. Twitter didn't make up the hashtag. Twitter didn't make up the retweet. It's our users. And people started using them so much that we decided to weave them into the product. I can't think of another company that has taken its users' actions and said, 'We're going to make them useful to everybody.'
Katie Jacobs Stanton
#98. No, they're not starbusts." He continued to touch each mark. "They're angel kisses. It's like angels kissed your hands all over." His eyes rose to meet hers. They were filled with kindness and compassion. Something she had felt little of the past year. (Peter)
Angie Stanton
#99. I am interviewing people with a spirit of genuine interest and compassion, and therefore, the general tone of the site is one of genuine interest and compassion. The moment that culture changes, 'Humans of New York' is no longer viable.
Brandon Stanton
