Emma Walton Hamilton Quotes

With my mother, Julie Andrews Edwards, I've authored such children's books as the 'Dumpy the Dump Truck' series, 'Dragon: Hound of Honor,' 'The Great American Mousical,' 'Simeon's Gift' and 'Thanks to You: Wisdom from Mother and Child.'

Emma Walton Hamilton

• Wisdom
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• Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Wisdom
  • Hip Hop

• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Wisdom
  • Democracy
  • Ignorance

• With age comes common sense and wisdom.

  

  Nas
  • Age
  • Wisdom
  • Common Sense

• The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

  

  Xenophon
  • Wisdom
  • Praise
  • Sounds

• Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Up
  • Food
  • Water

• The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Wisdom
  • Journey
  • Step

• We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Food
  • Wisdom
  • Spiritual

• Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • Wisdom
  • Stars
  • Ship

• Sometimes in international politics, the better part of wisdom is to defer dangers rather than try to eliminate them altogether instantly.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Wisdom
  • Politics
  • Better

• Silence is a fence around wisdom.

  

  Maimonides
  • Wisdom
  • Silence
  • Fence

• With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow, And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow; And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd - 'I came like Water, and like Wind I go'.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Hand
  • Water
  • Wisdom

• We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as we should be under natural conditions, our motherhood would be our glory. That function gives women such wisdom and power as no male can possess.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Men
  • Women
  • Mind

• I'm looking for a market for wisdom.

  

  Leo Szilard
  • Wisdom

• All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

  

  James A. Garfield
  • People
  • Free
  • Wisdom

• There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Good
  • Health
  • Wisdom

• My dad was a man of great wisdom in his short time here.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Time
  • Great
  • Dad

• Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

  

  James Newman
  • Children
  • Words
  • Wisdom

• It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series.

  

  Jacqueline Carey
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Funny

• The doctrines contained in the Bible will lift to a superior condition all who observe them; they will impart to them knowledge, wisdom, charity, fill them with compassion and cause them to feel after the wants of those who are in distress.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Bible

• There's other ways to protect yourself and your family, Arlen. Wisdom. Prudence. Humility. It's not brave to fight a battle you can't win.

  

  Peter V. Brett
  • Wisdom
  • Battle
  • Prudence

• I'm not going to give up the shock part of my comedy.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Give

• Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Time
  • Measure
  • Number

• With my mother, Julie Andrews Edwards, I've authored such children's books as the 'Dumpy the Dump Truck' series, 'Dragon: Hound of Honor,' 'The Great American Mousical,' 'Simeon's Gift' and 'Thanks to You: Wisdom from Mother and Child.'

  

  Emma Walton Hamilton
  • Wisdom
  • My Mother
  • Children's Book