Forbearers Quotes & Sayings

But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States ... I think it is high time that we recognize the contribution of our forbearers who worked tirelessly - men like John Quincy Adams, who would not rest until slavery was extinguished in the country. — Michele Bachmann

I think the work in front of us is the first work task given our forbearers, which is to care for the garden. Now because it's the first thing commanded, maybe it's the first thing forgotten. But it is the first admonition and it is absolutely unequivocal. It is part of right livelihood. — Wes Jackson

You shouldn't be worried when people call, communicate, yell, argue, or cry for you. You should be worried when everyone is silent. — Behdad Sami

for the vernacular which he was adept at converting — Jennifer Kloester

You should pray, you should fast. You should ask God for guidance, you should ask God for help ... Continue to pray throughout this night. Continue to recite the Quran. — Mohamed Atta

We must all be profoundly grateful for the magnificent achievements of our forbearers in this century. Yet perhaps in the daily press of events, in the clash of controversy, we don't see our own time for what it truly is - a new dawn for America. — William J. Clinton

People use tricks to get you to think the way they do or take away something you have that they want. One way they do that is to interrupt your normal way of thinking and take you by the hand and guide you down the path they want you to take. Father says they make you take a teeny-weeny step in their direction, and then they start to nudge you a little further down the path and before you know it, you're running full speed with them in a direction that you probably wouldn't have gone alone. — Christopher Paul Curtis

Peter 3:8: Unto the Lord, a day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as a day. — Gerald Schroeder

If you believe that discrimination exists, it will. — Anthony J. D'Angelo

I didn't have the money to put myself through drama school, so I thought - naively - that if I wrote a play and put it on at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, agents would see me and that would be my ticket to Hollywood. I wrote a musical; an acting coach saw it and put me on his course for free while I wrote for his company. — Neil Jackson

Ideas and art are the possibility of an answer tomorrow. — Frederick Sommer

Success is going from failure to failure with great enthusiasm. — Winston Churchill

God loves America. When you consider what He went through to bring our forbearers to this magnificent land, and when you realize what He accomplished in bringing forth a new nation on this continent - a government founded on Christian principles ... you have to realize that He had a dramatic vision and purpose for this nation. — D. James Kennedy

I think that people have short memories, and I think that they believe that our forbearers in the past were these Founding Fathers who were ideal and who were - would never have stooped to dirty tricks. — Joseph Cummins

Melancholy is to know the beauty of life, and to know it must end. — Alex Miller

There is not enough self-consciousness about what a family can be, about what it can inherit from forbearers, and what new traditions it can start as a contributor to the community. — Ralph Nader

Hopelessness is the catalyst that inspires men to action and demand justice. — Fred Munoz

Nothing should be so greatly feared as empty fame. — Leonardo Da Vinci

When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway? — Henry Flynt

An adult who does not understand that a child needs to use his hands and does not recognize this as the first manifestation of an instinct for work can be an obstacle to the child's development — Maria Montessori