Famous Quotes & Sayings

Allison Davis

He lives in those of us who work hard to fulfill his mission of equality and opportunity. For all of us, he is very much alive.

Lakhdar Brahimi

What we have learned from that struggle is the importance of freedom, the importance of mobilization, the importance of justice, equality, and so on.

W. C. Fields

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.

Woodrow Wilson

I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'

Samuel Johnson

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

Will Rogers

The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of nourishment.

Rudyard Kipling

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

Voltaire

Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

Rufus Choate

Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.

Raymond Chandler

I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split.

Kenneth Grahame

Onion sauce! Onion Sauce!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

Liam Neeson

I'm Irish, so I'm used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I'll call it dinner.

Charles Dickens

He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions.

Ambrose Bierce

The best kind of onion soup is the simplest kind.

Simon Rich

I never felt ostracized or made to feel strange by obsessing over The Onion or Calvin and Hobbes. That was considered completely normal.

Michael Pollan

When chopping onions, just chop onions.

Chrissy Teigen

I don't like the grilled onions for some reason. I like regular, crispy, stinky onions.

Rebecca West

one of Mr. [Thomas] Hardy's ancestors must have married a weeping willow. There are pages and pages in his collected poems which are simply plain narratives in ballad form of how an unenjoyable time was had by all.

Will Cuppy

I borrow to pay my honest debts and not to squander foolishly. What's more, I confine my borrowing to those who can well afford it. I don't go around sponging on widows and orphans unless they have plenty.

Samuel Richardson

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

Wendell Berry

If one accepts the 24th and 104th Psalms as scriptural norms, then surface mining and other forms of earth destruction are perversions. If we take the Gospels seriously, how can we not see industrial warfare - with its inevitable massacre of innocents - as a most shocking perversion? By the standard of all scriptures, neglect of the poor, of widows and orphans, of the sick, the homeless, the insane, is an abominable perversion.

Josh Billings

Young widows still bide their time.

Abraham Lincoln

Care for him who shall have borne the battle

Mark Twain

There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

George R. R. Martin

Truly, sister, you were born to be a widow. (Tyrion to Cersei)

Honore de Balzac

Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.

Imelda Marcos

Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.