Myra Davis Hemmings Quotes & Sayings

We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day, we started composing poems about God's great generosity and our former riches. — Anna Akhmatova

If we set out with ... a scrupulous regard to the Constitution, the government will acquire a spirit and a tone productive of permanent blessings to the community. If on the contrary, ... the Constitution is slighted, or explained away, upon every frivolous pretext, the future of government will be feeble, distracted and arbitrary. The rights of the subjects will be the sport of every party vicissitude. There will be no settled rule of conduct, but everything will fluctuate with the alternate prevalency of contending factions. — Alexander Hamilton

I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were canceled. It was a fix that I obviously needed. — Trevor Nunn

If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out ... I wont recruit them — John Calipari

The bodies of the dead, even of a savage enemy shall not be subjected to indignities by civilized and Christian men. — H.S. Jarrett