Last Bench Text Quotes & Sayings

I have often been asked how I felt when first I found myself on free soil. There is scarcely anything in my experience about which I could not give a more satisfactory answer. A new world had opened upon me. If life is more than breath and the "quick round of blood," I lived more in that one day than in a year of my slave life. It was a time of joyous excitement which words can but tamely describe. — Frederick Douglass

Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington. — John Boehner

We fancied even that the bushes smelt unpleasantly. — Charles Darwin

If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well. — Haruki Murakami

We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear. — Bill Joy

Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected. — Christopher Hitchens

In the crowd of a million people I'll find my valentine, and then I'll climb the highest steeple and tell the world he's mine. — Connie Francis