Country Ornaments Quotes & Sayings

Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents. — Abigail Adams

It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account. — Michel De Montaigne

In actual modern Europe a freethinker does not mean a man who thinks for himself. It means a man who, having thought for himself, has come to one particular class of conclusions, the material origin of phenomena, the impossibility of miracles, the improbability of personal immortality and so on. And none of these ideas are particularly liberal. — G.K. Chesterton

They would glue the wig to the front of my forehead, and after a while it would give me a headache. — Cesar Romero

True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a beauty, as if it were a revelation to him. All very well perhaps from his point of view, but only a little better than the common dilettantism. — Henry David Thoreau

I pray God may preserve your health and life many years. — Junipero Serra

Book I. Containing a General View of the Subjects Treated in Holy Scripture. — Augustine Of Hippo

Knowledge is great; wisdom is even better. — Jay Allison

What I want to do is to teach a lesson to all these people ... I want [to prove] that the Devil exists, that the Devil reigns supreme, that the power he enjoyed in the Middle Ages has not been taken from him, for today he is the absolute master of the world. — Joris-Karl Huysmans

A country whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable degree ... Whereas when buildings are of durable materials, every new edifice is an actual and permanent acquisition to the state, adding to its value as well as to its ornament. — Thomas Jefferson

Evil is relative ... You can't hang a sign on it. You can't touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger. — Glen Cook

I had equal opportunity to touch God sitting in my room, singing Him songs, as I did on a stage in front of twenty thousand people. — Anna Blanc

If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast. — Glenn Frey