H. Richard Niebuhr Quotes

Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys.

H. Richard Niebuhr

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• Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Kids
  • Always
  • Vision

• When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Pain
  • Boy
  • Dog

• The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Science

• I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Work
  • Day
  • Artist

• Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Strong
  • Years
  • Through

• I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • World
  • America
  • Hope

• In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Own
  • Talk
  • Theater

• I don't feel that normal anymore because I get recognised, even when I'm just trying to have fun or going to get ice cream with my friends.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Trying
  • Friends
  • Fun

• I still believe heavily that we have to be careful about having this ego and hubris as a successful corporation, that we should do it all. Because then I think we start to fail our customers and we're too focused on taking over the world.

  

  Parker Harris
  • World
  • Believe
  • Start

• There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Better
  • Theory
  • Before

• I was married for 10 minutes into a Southern family.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Family
  • Married
  • Southern

• How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Humanity

• When I hosted 'Win, Lose or Draw,' it was always fascinating to me that no one knew where anything was when they had to draw a destination.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Me
  • Win
  • Destination

• Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Simple
  • Thoughts
  • Eye

• I know what it feels like to walk out in front of a sold-out crowd of a thousand people that are there for you, and how good that feels, but as an opener, you just have to train yourself to think that it's going to be harder.

  

  G-Eazy
  • People
  • Good
  • Yourself

• I loved the Sunday funnies, and then, as I got a little bit older, I think my dad recognized that it was important for children, and especially girls, to have that time with their dad so that they could help develop their confidence and their critical thinking skills.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Important

• I saw a rainbow earlier today Lately those rainbows be comin' round like everyday Deep in the struggle I have found the beauty of me God is watchin' and the Devil finally let me be Here in this moment to myself

  

  Macy Gray
  • God
  • Today
  • Deep

• I can feel your heartbeat, Where I lay my head ‘Cause you’ve got me Yeah you’ve got me

  

  Zooey Deschanel

• Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred centuries ago, or those yet not born, or the dead, or those who dwell near the Pillars of Hercules, or those whom, in our opinion or that of others, we take to be far below us or far above us. So too we compete with those who follow the same ends as ourselves; we compete with our rivals in sport or in love, and generally with those who are after the same things; and it is therefore these whom we are bound to envy beyond all others. Hence the saying.

  

  Aristotle
  • People
  • Love
  • Opinion

• I have no complaints about 'The Walk.' I made it, and I'm very happy with what happens.

  

  Robert Zemeckis
  • Happens
  • Complaints

• Translation: The blue distance, the mysterious Heavens, the example of birds and insects flying everywhere —are always beckoning Humanity to rise into the air.

  

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
  • Humanity
  • Air
  • Blue

• The excitement level for me working on projects is really not a bit different from when I was 26.

  

  Amar Bose
  • Different

• Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys.

  

  H. Richard Niebuhr