Appomattox Courthouse Quotes & Sayings

The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of
bondage
to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its
relations with nature
is tenfold more difficult than the
cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a
thousandfold more precious. — Gardner Murphy

The kind of value system prevailing in a country determines the country's reaction and view on corruption. — Sunday Adelaja

I think everyone can relate to the werewolf myth - because we've all, as a result of alcohol, drugs, exhaustion, rage, gone off the leash and come to regret it later. I appeal to this psychologically - the unleashed id - but with a biological cause; I'm hopefully making possible supernatural circumstances. — Benjamin Percy

Certainty sees things in restrictive, protective, aggressive ways, and thus isn't seeing at all. — Jerry Saltz

And life takes place
inside us, with the eternal light
of an ecstatic day
which is going on somewhere else.
It is a beautiful thing,
something true and not yet real, beautiful! — Juan Ramon Jimenez

The number of lines in your forehead tells how many lives you've lived. — Ashton Kutcher

If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob of the Appomattox Courthouse. — Bill Veeck

The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond. — Douglas Brinkley

When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive. — William Barclay