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
-
I don't suppose anybody's ever enjoyed being who they are more than Arnold's enjoyed being Arnold Palmer.
-
When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
-
I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.
-
I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
-
Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'
-
For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
-
Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.
-
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.
-
This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.
-
Sometimes women who are taller aren't comfortable with it, but I love being tall.
-
I always knew I was destined for greatness.
-
I loved being in a band.
-
Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
-
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.
-
I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.
-
One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.
-
He who stops being better stops being good.
-
Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
-
Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.
-
Disasters teach us humility.
-
Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
-
Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States.
-
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.
