Hessians American Quotes & Sayings

Yonder are the Hessians. They were bought for seven pounds and tenpence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow! — John Stark

If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction. — Sam Walton

Anything that happens without witnesses never really happened at all. — Mark Lawrence

Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature ... — Pope Leo XIII

Rowf's rump slid suddenly forward as smoothly as a turd from a healthy anus. — Richard Adams

Here is the simple truth about people: Love the ones you want to keep. — Pleasefindthis

If someone wants to sticker a record for whatever reason, that's fine. But once it affects someone's opportunity to, you know, get that record, then I have a problem with it. — Scott Ian

My mother always said to keep my eyes open for the unexpected good, the little treasures. — Jane Kirkpatrick

Another is, if you take money out of your left pocket and put it in your right pocket, you're no richer. — Merton Miller

Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name. — Joni Mitchell

Politics have always covered two distinct kinds of problems: problems of administrative routine, and those that may be called 'questions of the moment.' ... A question of the moment is, indeed, a substitute for some notion, such as the idea of God, or hereditary monarchy, or national glory, that has hitherto acted as a symbol of human co-ordination. It provides no new positive certainty to replace the discredited certainty, but is what the name implies: the raising of a question which the old certainty no longer answers. — Laura Riding

Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance. — J.K. Rowling

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power. ... But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us. ("A National Day of Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer." Proclamation March 30, 1863) — Abraham Lincoln

We have seen the highest circle of spiraling powers. We have named this circle God. We might have given it any other name we wished: Abyss, Mystery, Absolute Darkness, Absolute Light, Matter, Spirit, Ultimate Hope, Ultimate Despair, Silence. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Conscience is what your mother told you before you were six years old. — Brock Chisholm