Emigrant Bank Quotes & Sayings

Stop your complaining, stop your doctoring; this tumult has arisen and is direct from above, and it will not cease till it makes all the adversaries of the Word like the mud on the streets. But it is sad to have to remind a theologian like you of these things, as if you were a pupil instead of one who ought to be teaching others. — Martin Luther

French people are strange about America, I think. — Michel Hazanavicius

Idealists mature badly. If they can't outgrow their idealism, they become hypocrites or blind. — Brent Weeks

Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy. — Marie Windsor

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation. — David Icke

In the 1870s it was estimated that a third of all the money in the Irish economy came from money sent by kindhearted Irish servant girls to their families. The Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank in New York alone would send more than $30 million to Ireland between 1850 and 1880. Many families in Ireland owed their survival to what they gratefully called the "American Letter," a lifeline that helped them cope with brutal poverty and lack of opportunity. — Rashers Tierney

in a democratic society, a wrongful practice persists only when most people don't perceive it to be unjust. — Peter Thiel

For ever tear dropped, a new seed within you is planted, from which a garden predicting better days will surely emerge. — Daniel Marques

Tree limbs boasted fresh baby buds and smiled at the brush strokes spread across the sky. — Abby Slovin

The general burden of the Coolidge memoirs was that the right hon. gentleman was a typical American, and some hinted that he was the most typical since Lincoln. As the English say, I find myself quite unable to associate myself with that thesis. He was, in truth, almost as unlike the average of his countrymen as if he had been born green. The Americano is an expansive fellow, a back-slapper, full of amiability; Coolidge was reserved and even muriatic. The Americano has a stupendous capacity for believing, and especially for believing in what is palpably not true; Coolidge was, in his fundamental metaphysics, an agnostic. The Americano dreams vast dreams, and is hag-ridden by a demon; Coolidge was not mount but rider, and his steed was a mechanical horse. The Americano, in his normal incarnation, challenges fate at every step and his whole life is a struggle; Coolidge took things as they came. — H.L. Mencken