Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.

Wendi McLendon-Covey
- Life
- Good
- Yourself
When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.

Adam Cohen
- World
- Pretty
- Revolution
NASA should start thinking about this planet.

Wally Schirra
- Thinking
- Start
- NASA
It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.

Yusef Komunyakaa
- Writing
- Way
- Poems
Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.

Madeleine Stowe
It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

Vidal Sassoon
- Mother
- Feeling
- Myself