Saito Hiraga Quotes & Sayings

With God for thy portion thou art rich indeed, for He will supply thy need, comfort thy heart, assuage thy grief, guide thy steps, be with thee in the dark valley, and then take thee home, to enjoy Him as thy portion for ever. "I have enough," said Esau; this is the best thing a worldly man can say, but Jacob replies, "I have all things," which is a note too high for carnal minds. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

So although the campaign for women's votes continued and the Bill was repeatedly brought back to Parliament, for nearly a generation most women held back from direct action and unladylike encroachment on the established power of men. — Neil MacGregor

Poorer children grow up with more stress and more disruption, and these disadvantages produce effects on the brain. Researchers often use dull tests to see who can focus attention and stay on task. Children raised in the top income quintile were two-and-a-half times more likely to score well on these tests than students raised in the bottom quintile. — David Brooks

Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world. — Hugh Blair

The American political experience can therefore be viewed as optimism in the collective. — Michael J. Fox

Amy! Sit correctly, you are wearing a dress ... feet on the floor and your knees together girl ... You are trying to catch a husband, not flies ! — Amy Mah

An item must have a soul, it must function properly, be nice to hold and a pleasure to look at — Kay Bojesen

Mathematics is very much like poetry ... what makes a good poem
a great poem
is that there is a large amount of thought expressed in very few words. In this sense formulas like
or are poems. — Lipman Bers

It is not female egotism to say that the future of mankind may very well be ours to determine. It is a fact. — Shirley Chisholm

Where once I prayed for forgiveness from a father God who held up huge palms and said "Thou shalt not," now I find peace with a sister god who takes my open hands in hers and says, "You will. — Betsy Cornwell

In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country. — Feisal Abdul Rauf

Dreams, memories, the sacred
they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles. — Yukio Mishima