Wirt Quotes

#1. Whereas Europeans generally pronounce my name the right way ('Ni-klows Wirt'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nick-les Worth'. This is to say that Europeans call me by name, but Americans call me by value.

Niklaus Wirth

#2. Give me liberty or give me death.
[From a speech given at Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775 to the Virginia House of Burgesses; as first published in print in 1817 in William Wirt's Life and Character of Patrick Henry.]

Patrick Henry

#3. Ruth Bracket's arms moved backward and forward in rhythmic motion. She was rowing, yet no sound came from her oarlocks. Oars and oarlocks were padded. She liked it best that way. Why? Mystery - that magic word "mystery." How she loved it!

Mildred A. Wirt

#4. In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war. The crises of hunger and disease. The crisis of the destruction of democracy.

Vandana Shiva

#5. I put my money in the bank: I have to think of life after modeling, when I'm not famous any more.

Eva Herzigova

#6. Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.

William Wirt

#7. Not all speed is movement.

Toni Cade Bambara

#8. The newspaper has debauched the American until he is a slavish, simpering, and angerless citizen; it has taught him to be a lump mass-man toward fraud, simony, murder, and lunacies more vile than those of Commodus or Caracalla.

Edward Dahlberg

#9. To be acceptable, it seems, a project must often be billed as a pure replica of a successful venture in an advanced country.

Albert O. Hirschman

#10. Our conscience illuminated by the Holy Spirit as we search the Scriptures will show us in every circumstance the right way.

Richard Wurmbrand

#11. Live a courageous life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

William Wirt