Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quotes

The first wild-flower of the year is like land after sea.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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• So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.

  

  Ralph Boston
  • Think
  • Team
  • Win

• I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Me
  • Doors
  • Open

• Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • People
  • Think
  • Violence

• I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Career
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Music
  • Me
  • Attitude

• As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Remember

• All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Up
  • Ignorance

• So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Long
  • Happy

• Is it possible for us to witness a world without America and Zionism? You should know that this slogan, this goal, can certainly be achieved.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • America

• O fading honours of the dead!O high ambition, lowly laid!

  

  Walter Scott
  • High
  • Ambition

• ‘She is a goddess,’ said Ambrose, drunkenly and stoutly. ‘…And she wants me. She’s the pursuer…She’s the epitome of woman, not,’ he said, ‘not a second-hand bundle of coy erogeneity draped,’ he said, ‘in an all-too-diaphanous robe,’ he said, ‘of pudeur.’

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • She
  • Hand
  • Goddess

• There he lieth, tossing in the guilt of his lewdness, the primal lecher, neglectful of his duties to a fair wife but all too ready to plunge his sizzling steel into the slaking black mud of a base Indian.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Black
  • Wife

• Demosthenes: A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes

• I think opinions should be judged of by their influences and effects; and if a man holds none that tend to make him less virtuous or more vicious, it may be concluded that he holds none that are dangerous, which I hope is the case with me.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • May
  • Hope

• In reality, during the continuance of any one regulated proportion, between the respective values of the different values of the different metals in the coin, the value of the most precious metal regulates the value of the whole coin.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Different
  • Reality
  • Value

• The writing process, it's too mysterious to try and describe.

  

  Mick Jones Foreigner
  • Writing
  • Mysterious

• Advantages of freedom do not have to be proved by something outside freedom itself. It is its own underwriter.

  

  Alija Izetbegovic
  • Freedom

• This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Men
  • Truth

• If I've learned anything in this business, how stupid would it be not to do 'It's My Party' when people come to hear it?

  

  Lesley Gore
  • People
  • Business
  • Party

• To have a tournament right where you live is very cool.

  

  Jimmy Walker
  • Live
  • Cool

• Nearly all edible seaweeds - or 'sea vegetables,' as they ought technically to be called - belong to one of three broad groups: green, red and brown algae.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Red
  • Sea
  • Green

• Why was his hair tinted with gold? An evil omen was golden hair in my life. Why had not the brown of his eyes crushed out and killed the blue? - for brown were his father’s eyes, and his father’s father’s. And thus in the Land of the Color-line I saw, as it fell across my baby, the shadow of the Veil.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • Why
  • Father

• The first wild-flower of the year is like land after sea.

  

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Sea
  • Flower
  • Land