Joseph Jacobs Quotes

The first two crusades brought the flower of European chivalry to Constantinople and restored that spiritual union between Eastern and Western Christendom that had been interrupted by the great schism of the Greek and Roman Churches.

Joseph Jacobs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: australian
  • Birth: August 29, 1854 - January 30, 1916

Topics

FlowerGreatSpiritualFirstTwo

Sometimes, I want to make a record that's so schizophrenic and so all over the place, and then other times, I want to make a record that's very coherent and very short and together.

Jim James

TogetherShortPlaceSometimesWant

I have two passports because I have to have at least one, and I really don't know how I define myself. And I feel that as I get older, I feel very fortunate to have, on paper, a dual nationality.

Jhumpa Lahiri

MyselfFeelKnowTwoFortunateGet

I look upon the whole world as my parish.

John Wesley

WorldLookWholeParish

Most people don't know what's happening around them because they're just speeding through life. And before they know it, they're just old. So I just try to slow it down.

Tracy Morgan

LifePeopleSlowDownKnowTry

I don't want to take the escalators. Give me the stairs that have the dips and the two old ladies that are blocking it and they've got an attitude, and they don't want you to go past them.

RJ Cyler

AttitudePastMeYouStairsWant

My mother was apt to fall out on the floor and start speaking in tongues. Actually, it was a great performance... It was great theater. As a 5-year-old, I understood that, although it scared me and there was a little part of me going, 'I don't know about this. This seems over-the-top to me,' at the same time, I did understand that this was passion.

Rodney Crowell

MotherPassionGreatTimeMeStart

I'm like a tree. My leaves might change color, but my roots are the same.

Rose Namajunas

ChangeTreeRootsColorSameLike

My husband is experimental, loves to cook, and is really good at it. If I do the cooking, I lose my appetite. Why is that?

Jasmine Guinness

GoodCookingHusbandLoseWhyCook

Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.

Joseph Pulitzer

TogetherFallRiseWillRepublic

I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.

Diane von Furstenberg

LifeWomanIndependenceRunPayOwn

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Denis Diderot

PatriotismSocietyEphemeralMotive

In our own lives and in our communities, we need to find a way to include others rather than exclude them. We need to find a way to allow our pain and suffering, individually and collectively.

Sharon Salzberg

PainSufferingFindWayOthersNeed

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