Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

Henry Ward Beecher

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• I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Money
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Great
  • Food
  • Chef

• As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s. A governor with executive experience would be ideal.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Experience
  • Presidential
  • Democrat

• As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.

  

  Karen Mills
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Time
  • Music
  • Born

• There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Moments
  • Lot
  • Mindless

• It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around... It's an honor to be closing it.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • World
  • Best
  • Honor

• I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Music
  • Girl
  • Graduation

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Broken
  • Stand
  • Would

• I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Proud
  • Changed
  • Lifestyle

• 'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Story
  • Two
  • Sides

• I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Soul
  • Food
  • Enjoy

• I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Past
  • Change
  • Peace

• Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Play
  • Devil
  • Sword

• Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Life
  • History
  • Society

• The women of the Senate are like the U.S. Olympic team: we come in different sizes, but we sure are united in our determination to do the best for our country!

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Different
  • Women
  • Country

• When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Song

• My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood; adults standing in so called 'bread lines,' children begging in the streets.

  

  Bill O'Reilly
  • Great
  • Children
  • Father

• I like dialogue in novels. I wanted to avoid laying history on with a trowel - appearing to be lecturing, as opposed to the characters lecturing their children or students. Dialogue can humanise the story and make it go down somewhat more smoothly.

  

  Elliot Perlman
  • Children
  • History

• Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Day
  • Morning
  • Everyday

• The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Life
  • Drama
  • Moment

• It all happened so fast. Someone slammed the brakes and there was no way to go, just straight into it.

  

  Fabian Cancellara
  • Way
  • Happened
  • Brake

• The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Heart
  • History
  • Worlds