Crowns Quotes - Page 24

• There may come a day
  Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth,
  And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!

  Bayard Taylor

  Success, Art, Desire

  Bayard Taylor (1867). “The Picture of St. John”, p.220

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• Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the cradle and the realm of public opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world's university, at once a school and a theater, the spur and the crown of ambition, the tribunal which unmasks pretension and stamps real merit, the power that gives government leave to be, and outruns the lazy Church in fixing the moral sense of the eye.

  Wendell Phillips

  Sex, Real, School

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.244

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• Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. The most praying souls are the most assured souls.

  Thomas Brooks

  Prayer, Names, Soul

  Thomas Brooks (1860). “Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks”, p.76

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• After the sleep of death we are to gather up our forces again with the incalculable results of this life, a crown of shame or glory upon our heads, and begin again on a new level of progress.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Sleep, Progress, Levels

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.306

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• You shall by faith sustain yourself and comfort yourself in your Lord, and be strong in His power; for you are in the beaten and common way to heaven, when you are under our Lord's crosses. You have reason to rejoice in it, more than in a crown of gold; and rejoice and be glad to bear the reproaches of Christ.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Strong, Heaven, Gold

  Samuel Rutherford (1824). “Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition”, p.364

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• If there be no enemy, no fight; if do fight, no victory; if no victory, no crown.

  Girolamo Savonarola

  Fighting, Evil, Enemy

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• Fashion is not public opinion, or the result of embodiment of public opinion. It may be that public opinion will condemn the shape of a bonnet, as it may venture to do always, and with the certainty of being right nine times in ten: but fashion will place it upon the head of every woman in America; and, were it literally a crown of thorns, she would smile contentedly beneath the imposition.

  J. G. Holland

  Fashion, America, Public Opinion

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• About Archimedes one remembers that he did strange things: he ran around naked shouting 'Heureka!', plunged crowns into water, drew geometric figures as he was about to be killed, and so on. One ends up forgetting he was a scientist of whom we still have many writings.

  Lucio Russo

  Writing, Water, Naked

  "The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn". Book by Lucio Russo, 2004.

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• There is a God! the sky his presence shares,
  His hand upheaves the billows in their mirth,
  Destroys the mighty, yet the humble spares
  And with contentment crowns the thought of worth.

  Charlotte Saunders Cushman

  God, Humble, Hands

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• One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British crown

  Marcy Kaptur

  Religious, Purpose, Fighter

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• Come, weave us a scheme so I can pay them back! Stand beside me, Athena, fire me with daring, fierce as the day we ripped Troy's glittering crown of towers down. Stand by me - furious now as then, my bright-eyed one - and I would fight three hundred men, great goddess, with you to brace me, comrade-in-arms in battle!

  Homer

  Fighting, Men, Fire

  Homer (1997). “The Odyssey”, p.452, Penguin

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• ur struggle is not with some monarch named George who inherited the crown - although it often seems that way.

  Edward Kennedy

  Struggle, Way, Seems

  "Kennedy Speech Defined Ideals". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. August 26, 2009.

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• You'll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.

  Martial

  Laurels

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• I am concerned that my children will grow up sheltered from the public. I am concerned that the children get to experience childhood and youth in their time without constant monitoring. It has been very important for both the Crown Prince and myself.

  Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway

  Children, Growing Up, Childhood

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• The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either,--black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand.

  John Milton

  Night, Hands, Black

  John Milton (1832). “Milton's Poetical Works: Together with the Life of the Author”, p.56

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• The English did not come to America from a mere love of adventure, nor to truck with or convert the savages, nor to hold offices under the crown, as the French to a great extent did, but to live in earnest and with freedom.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Adventure, America

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “A Yankee in Canada: With Anti-slavery and Reform Papers”, p.62

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• I had to face within myself all the things I didn't do and wasn't while I was wearing my own crown.

  Frank Langella

  Faces, My Own

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Most historians accept that Egypt was a cradle of civilization, and that many cultural idioms and traditions come from there. What has yet to be understood, however, is the manner in which Egypt inherited its cultural elements from the lands of the North-West. This fact is not known today because of the threat it poses to Rome and London, the Vatican and Crown, and to all those who have profited from the suppression of knowledge.

  Michael Tsarion

  Egypt, Rome, Land

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• Product procedure...must securely protect the crown jewels, but, equally important, it must eschew building high fences around the garbage cans.

  Fred Brooks

  Jewels, Garbage Cans, Important

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• Consequently, the value and importance of the monarchic idea cannot reside in the person of the monarch himself except if Heaven decides to lay the crown on the brow of the heroic genius like Frederick the Great or a wise character like William I.

  Adolf Hitler

  Wise, Character, Ideas

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are decades in the making of the one man of renown; Multitudes that go unnoticed who must wreathe for him a crown.

  Christopher Paolini

  Men, Fame, Renown

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• For having expressed an opinion, however far-fetched, we straightway become its slave, ready to die defending it, and even ready to believe it. And many continue to be martyrs to causes which have ceased to exist, their crowns rusting upon their heads as tin wreaths rust upon forgotten tombs.

  Paul Eldridge

  Believe, Tin, Wreaths

  Paul Eldridge (1960). “Seven against the night”

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• The life of each and every one of us has been written. The crucifix is my autobiography. The blood is the ink. The nails the pen. The skin the parchment. On every line of that body I can trace my life. In the crown of thorns I can read my pride. In the hands that are dug with nails, I can read avarice and greed. In the flesh hanging from him like purple rags, I can read my lust. In feet that are fettered, I can find the times that I ran away and would not let him follow. Any sin that you can think of is written there.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Pride, Thinking, Blood

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• From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye. Overwhelmed and activated by the force of the current, he conveys his vision into his work. And yet, standing at his appointed place as the trunk of the tree, he does nothing other than gather and pass on what rises from the depths. He neither serves nor commands he transmits. His position is humble. And the beauty at the crown is not his own; it has merely passed through him.

  Paul Klee

  Eye, Humble, Artist

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• Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.

  Aberjhani

  Compassion, Soul, Victory

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.66, Lulu.com

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