Fellows Quotes - Page 28

• Do you love your creator Love your fellow-beings first.

  Muhammad

  Love, Marriage, Firsts

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• A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good

  Sophocles

  Men, Evil, Expectations

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• Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom you must one day relinquish all?

  Socrates

  Children, One Day, Citizens

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• I believe that Judaism was an improvement on polytheism; Christianity was an improvement on Judaism (to some degree and in some departments only); that Protestantism is an improvement on Catholicism; that Mormonism is an improvement on Protestantism. So I give Joseph Smith credit as an innovator and as a smart fellow.

  Thomas Ferguson

  Smart, Believe, Giving

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• Put a pair of high heels on a fellow and just look what he was reduced to.

  Celeste Bradley

  High Heels, Looks, Pairs

  Celeste Bradley (2008). “The Impostor: The Liar's Club”, p.15, Macmillan

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• My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America.

  Jim Ramstad

  Loss, Greatness, Men

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• My fellow Americans, let us take that first step. Let us...step back from the shadow of war and seek out the way of peace. And if that journey is a thousand miles, or even more, let history record that we, in this land, at this time, took the first step.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Journey, Land

  Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Address to the Nation, delivered 26 July 1963

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• Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God.

  John Tyler

  Religious, Men, Presidential

  Funeral oration for Thomas Jefferson, July 11, 1826.

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• The fellow has absolutely no principles."Money and gall" is all he has.

  Barry Goldwater

  Presidential, Principles

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• That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

  Samuel Johnson

  Funny, Mistake, Humorous

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 1770)

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• They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Justice, Forever, Brotherhood

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• I do not pray. . . . I do not expect God to single me out and grant me advantages over my fellow men. . . . Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Prayer, Responsibility, Men

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• The Catholic Church is a thousand times better than your Protestant Church upon that question [of damnation]. The Catholic Church believes in purgatory - that is, a place where a fellow can get a chance to make a motion for a new trial.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Catholic, Religion

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• In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

  Marya Mannes

  Inspirational, Reality, Our Society

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• My fellow Americans: Last night when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that the troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far. And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join me in prayer:
  Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization. . .

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Prayer, Fall, Struggle

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our Nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow Americans, this is our time. Let us embrace it.

  William J. Clinton

  Presidential, Foundation, Needs

  Bill Clinton's first inauguration speech, www.aol.com. January 20, 1993.

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• The one thing our Founding Fathers could not foresee - they were farmers, professional men, businessmen giving of their time and effort to an idea that became a country - was a nation governed by professional politicians who had an interest in getting re-elected. They probably envisioned a fellow serving a couple of hitches and then eagerly looking forward to getting back to the farm.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Couple, Father

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• Everyone interested in licensing our field might note that the reason licensing has been invented is to protect the public, not designers or clients. 'Do no harm' is an admonition to doctors concerning their relationship to their patients, not to their fellow practitioners or the drug companies. If we were licensed, telling the truth might become more central to what we do.

  Milton Glaser

  Doctors, Design, Drug

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• What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?

  Richard J. Daley

  People, Office, Political

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• I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thanksgiving, Father, Heaven

  Proclamation, 3 Oct. 1863

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• Everyone is shy - it is the inborn modesty that makes us able to live in harmony with other creatures and our fellows. Achievement comes not by denying shyness but, occasionally, by setting it aside and letting pride and perspiration come first.

  Kirkpatrick Sale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Pride

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• I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at this dark and tragic moment.

  Pope John Paul II

  Prayer, Dark, Profound

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• I have come to understand that if we hope to build a better world, we must be guided by the universal human values that emphasize the kinship of the human race - the sanctity of human life and freedom, peace between nations, honesty and truthfulness, regard for the rights of others, and love of one's fellows.

  Ephraim Katzir

  Honesty, Rights, Race

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• It has been said that he who was the first to abuse his fellow-man instead of knocking out his brains without a word, laid thereby the basis of civilisation.

  John Hughlings Jackson

  Men, Abuse, Brain

  John Hughlings Jackson, James Taylor, Sir Gordon Holmes (1958). “Selected Writings of John Hughlings Jackson: Evaluation and dissolution of the nervous system. Speech. Various papers, addresses and lectures”

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• Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?

  Joy Adamson

  Responsibility, Animal, Brain

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