James A. Garfield Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

  James A. Garfield

  Inspirational, Effort, World

  "The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield: Together with Notable Extracts from His Speeches and Letters". Book by E. E. Brown, 1881.

• If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

  James A. Garfield

  Integrity, Men, Brave

• We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.

  James A. Garfield

  Past, Giving, Forever

• Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster; but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on.

  James A. Garfield

  Sky, Circles, Shining

• A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.

  James A. Garfield

  Pride, Noble, Earth

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 1”, p.326, Best Books on

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