Crummell Alexander Quotes & Sayings

It wasn't until a year later, when a young woman with Danish pastries on either side of her head knelt down in front of a walking dustbin to record an important message, that love truly came to town. - p 16 [re: Princess Leia] — Simon Pegg

Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it. — Alexander Crummell

We should let our godliness exhale like th odor of flowers. We should live for the good of our kind, and strive for the salvation of the world. — Alexander Crummell

It is a sad reflection ... that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things. — Alexander Crummell

Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes till for the first time we shall really see them. — Phillips Brooks

The Vengeance's sides and bow were covered in metal spikes, making it resemble a large floating cactus. — Chris Colfer

All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society. — Alexander Crummell

If you are to be leaders, teachers, and guides among your people, you must have strength. No people can be fed, no people can be built up on flowers. — Alexander Crummell

The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a people, of a nation, of a rare, in large majestic and abiding things which lifts them up to the skies. — Alexander Crummell

We read the future by the past. — Alexander Crummell

He wasn't here to satisfy my idle curiosities. And it held its own fascinations: a man who talked like an innocent and fucked like a sybarite. — Alexis Hall

And after everything been said and done, the mind only believes what our heart feels. — Seekerohan

It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances. — Alexander Crummell

Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death. — Alexander Crummell

Color is nothing, anywhere. Civilized condition differences men, all over the globe. — Alexander Crummell

Strive to make something of yourself, then strive to make the most of yourself. — Alexander Crummell

This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death. — David Foster Wallace

But she looked for the emotions and they weren't there; just scraps and tatters, clinging to the empty place where they belonged. She had no feeling left, hollowed out and lost and wondering how she'd ended up — Cole McCade

Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity. — Alexander Crummell