Rebecca Harding Davis Quotes

Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil beauty as in those unsung, unpainted hills of Pennsylvania.

Rebecca Harding Davis

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• I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Long
  • Kids

• But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Process
  • Act
  • Scripture

• As long as he's not getting in trouble, let him go out and have fun.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Long
  • Fun
  • Way

• How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present. Not once in his entire life had he come to rest in the quiet center of himself but had forever cast himself from some dark past he could not remember to a future that did not exist. Not once had he been present for his life. So his life had passed like a dream. Is it possible for people to miss their lives the way one can miss a plane?

  

  Walker Percy
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I love to watch my movies. You have no idea...I would watch my movies like over a hundred times.

  

  Nadia Buari
  • Ideas
  • Watches
  • Hundred

• Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Fear
  • Esteem
  • Self-Esteem

• If you can conceive something in your mind and believe it to be true, then you can achieve it.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • True

• Thou canst not force my soul to wish thee ill, That is the only evil that can kill.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Soul
  • Wish
  • Evil

• Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us than are those of the whole human race. Hence we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury.

  

  William Lloyd Garrison
  • World
  • Country
  • Liberty

• Science investigates, religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power, religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts, religion deals with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Control

• To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Water
  • motivation
  • Motivational

• Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Death
  • Pain
  • End

• Best they honor thee Who honor in thee only what is best.

  

  William Watson
  • Honor
  • Thee

• Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.

  

  William Blake
  • Art
  • Smile
  • Harmony

• The proverb answers where the sermon fails.

  

  William Gilmore Simms
  • inspirational
  • Answers
  • Failing

• I wish I dared dispense with all costume. Naked children are so perfectly pure and lovely; but Mrs. Grundy would be furious - it would never do.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Children
  • Costume
  • DIspense

• We have to be prepared and willing to discover what is true even at the cost of our comfort. For real security always lies on the side of truth, not on the side of comfort.

  

  Bhikkhu Bodhi
  • Truth
  • Security
  • Comfort

• To be called a child of God - there is no greater distinction. I love the final sentence of that Scripture with that emphatic exclamation mark. What a powerful assurance. Right here, right now, in this very moment, no matter how good or bad you feel about yourself, you're a beloved child of God. Throughout Scripture, God is conveying this message. He made you, he loves you, he pursues you, he's not done with you, and he's called you his child.

  

  Matthew West
  • Moments
  • Powerful
  • Yourself

• Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

  

  Helen Gurley Brown
  • Money
  • Funny
  • Helping

• I like surprising my audiences, and it's compulsory to have fun and be silly; I never take myself quite too seriously.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Fun
  • Myself
  • Silly

• And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a treasure hunt, you know.

  

  Will Wright
  • People
  • Term
  • Hunting

• Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil beauty as in those unsung, unpainted hills of Pennsylvania.

  

  Rebecca Harding Davis
  • Comfort
  • Assurance
  • Tranquil