1860 Census Quotes & Sayings

He was beginning to understand: You were treated special and, later, something horrible would be told to you. — Alice Sebold

True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does. — Josh Billings

You see how it is, my dear friends. There's no pleasing everyone. It's hopeless to even try, and the more you play the peacemaker, the less peaceful things become. — Sholem Aleichem

But there's this difference; one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver. — Emily Bronte

We've recorded over our voices once and double the harmonies, make them thick. The Four Freshmen do that. — Bruce Johnston

I played trumpet in the school bands. I learned things I liked to play on my trumpet, but I didn't learn why this note goes with this note and why it produces that sound. Or how to create tension in the composition. — Flea

Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God. — R.C. Sproul

Military officers destitute of military knowledge; naval officers with no idea of a ship; civil officers without a notion of affairs; brazen ecclesiastics, of the worst world worldly, with sensual eyes, loose tongues, and looser lives; all totally unfit for their several callings, all lying horribly in pretending to belong to them, but all nearly or remotely of the order of Monseigneur, and therefore foisted on all public employments from which anything was to be got; these were to be told off by the score and the score. — Charles Dickens

Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another. — John Dryden

The roles for women in theatre are much better than they are in film. — Kim Cattrall

Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular? — William Shakespeare

What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept? Not one. — Sitting Bull

Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know. — Kathy Acker

Niel felt tonight that the right man could still save her, even now. She was still her own indomitable self, going through her old part,--but only the stage hands were left to listen to her. All those who had shared in fine undertakings and bright occasions were gone. — Willa Cather

But beauty itself is not given to us by anyone; it is a power we have within us from the gate, a radiance inside us. — Marianne Williamson