Alexander Crummell Quotes
The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a people, of a nation, of a rare, in large majestic and abiding things which lifts them up to the skies.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't suppose anybody's ever enjoyed being who they are more than Arnold's enjoyed being Arnold Palmer.
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
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I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.
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I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
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This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.
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Sometimes women who are taller aren't comfortable with it, but I love being tall.
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I always knew I was destined for greatness.
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I loved being in a band.
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Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
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Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.
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I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.
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One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.
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He who stops being better stops being good.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.
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I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.
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By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does not believe what he tells another ... has even less worth than if he were a mere thing. ... makes himself a mere deceptive appearance of man, not man himself.
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The thing I'm afraid of the most with the 800m is injuries. That's why I don't normally like to run in a group: I prefer to be in front, just in case someone pushes me with their spikes. I don't like stuff like that.
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One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price.
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The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a people, of a nation, of a rare, in large majestic and abiding things which lifts them up to the skies.
