Catharine Beecher Quotes

The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.

Catharine Beecher

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• It was my mother who got me involved in gymnastics, sending me to classes when I was six just to stop me doing back flips on the couch and destroying the furniture.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Stop

• I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and that gave me enough money to move down here. I was washing windows down in Orange County when they called me up and said they wanted me to do their TV show.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Money
  • Song
  • Show

• I'm no more or less antisocial than the next person.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Person
  • More
  • Antisocial

• As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Jesus
  • Christ
  • Expect

• If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.

  

  Jack Black
  • Up
  • Band
  • Beethoven

• My music does say a lot about me and what I went through. All the songs are about things I have gone through and what I am thinking. I wrote about my family, friends and boys, of course, and about life.

  

  Lalaine Vergara-Paras
  • Life
  • Music
  • Thinking

• Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Been
  • Hungry
  • Washington

• Nickelback offered me a full-membership position. That's a great thing.

  

  Daniel Adair Nickelback
  • Great
  • Me
  • Position

• Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Life
  • Positive
  • Tennis

• The Democratic Party has taken the black community for granted and said, 'This is the most loyal constituency we have. They're not going anywhere.' But the Republican Party has said, 'That's the most loyal constituency Democrats have. They're not going anywhere. We've got to win without them.'

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Black
  • Community
  • Party

• The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.

  

  Eddie Floyd
  • Inspiration
  • Groups
  • Teenagers

• If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going.

  

  Omar Torrijos Herrera
  • Up
  • Fall
  • Kiss

• I still feel that I am in my prime right now but I think my best fights were in my thirties.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Right
  • Fights
  • Prime

• In 2013, I started playing Fara Sherazi on 'Homeland.' I love playing her, not just because she's a strong woman, but because for the first time, a Muslim woman is being portrayed on television as a regular person, rather than a cliche or collection of stereotypes.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Time
  • Love
  • She

• Henry James joyously engaged in the act of writing. A good day's writing gave him a sense of strength, of control over chaos, a victory of order and clarity over the confused battle of existence.

  

  Leon Edel
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Control

• Me, I still believe in paradise. But now at least I know its not some place you can look for because its not where you go. It’s how you feel for a moment in your life when you’re a part of something and if you find that moment, it lasts forever.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Forever

• I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Time
  • Character
  • Perception

• A fool must now and then be right, by chance

  

  William Cowper
  • Truth
  • Chance
  • Fool

• Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap

  

  Morton Feldman
  • Boring
  • Piano
  • Combination

• You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject your passion for the subject will save you. If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich; if you wish to be learned, you will be learned; if you wish to be good, you will be good. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them with exclusiveness, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

  

  William James
  • Wish
  • Passion
  • Artist

• Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

  

  Confucius
  • Life is
  • Complicated
  • Insist

• The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.

  

  Catharine Beecher
  • Harmony
  • Principle
  • Union