Joseph Hall Quotes

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

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• I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • America
  • Building
  • Now

• I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Why
  • Truth
  • America

• I follow my own head. And if I'm determined to do something, then I'll make sure that I make it happen.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Determined
  • Make It Happen

• You say 'African music' and you think 'tribal drumming.' But there's a lot of African music that's like James Brown, and a lot, too, that sounds very Hispanic.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Music
  • Think
  • You

• Now you are come! You tremble like a star Poised where, behind earth's rim, the sun has set. Your voice has sung across my heart, but numb And mute, I have no tones to answer.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Heart
  • Earth
  • Star

• For the sake of the sons - and even for the son's future wives - a woman must keep a part of her mind and heart entirely for herself. Every family is better off with a wife and mother who can astonish and occasionally dewilder.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Mind
  • Family
  • Heart

• Two generations ago only a few unfortunate children ever saw anyone hit over the head with a brick, shot, rammed by a car, blown up, immolated, raped or tortured. Now all children, along with their elders, see such images every day of their lives and are expected to enjoy them. ... The seven-year-old who hides his eyes in the family cops-and-robbers drama is desensitized four years later to a point where he crunches potato chips through the latest video nasty.

  

  Penelope Leach
  • Children
  • Family
  • Enjoy

• For Arizonans, there's a particular connection because it was the U.S.S. Arizona and so on December 7, we have a lot of commemorations on the day of the attack, and it's a big part of Arizona life.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • Attack
  • Arizona
  • Commemoration

• The saying, "Practice is everything," is Periander's.

  

  Periander
  • Practice
  • Everything
  • Saying

• I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether they will be able to survive an entertaining version of what they have to say.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Question
  • Survive
  • Authors

• Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Masterpieces
  • Great Minds
  • Flotsam

• I trust that as He shall further open the way, I will be ready to walk therein, relying on His help and trusting in His goodness and wisdom.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Help
  • Way
  • Wisdom

• So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.

  

  John Gardner
  • Age
  • Childhood
  • Terrible

• I have been brought to my emotional knees, but not in regard to the science of this topic, ... I am a devastated, broken, grieving mother, but I am not second-guessing or questioning my understanding of the issue.

  

  Christine Maggiore
  • Understanding
  • Emotional
  • Knees

• Until you prove yourself, modeling the behavior of iconoclasts is dangerous.

  

  Brad Stone

• Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

  

  Joseph Hall
  • Virtues
  • Moderation
  • Pearl