Cityspire Holding Quotes & Sayings

And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves. — Robert Treat Paine

History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to be the kind of person you are; and thirdly, knowing what it is to be the person you are and nobody else is. Knowing yourself means knowing what you can do; and since nobody knows what they can do until they try, the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is. — Robin G. Collingwood

Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank? — Walt Whitman

I still believe that sex is dirty. It's just that now I wouldn't have it any other way. — Lily Tomlin

The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans. — Idries Shah

To ask for anything of consequence from friends who cannot refuse is uncivilized. — Bette Lord