Alfred Whitney Griswold Quotes

The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: educator
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 27, 1906 - April 19, 1963

Topics

GodLawSparkPhysicsLandShape

We live in a very funny world, and it's easier for me as a single man to say I don't like children, because that puts a lot of salacious tabloid people off the hunt.

Jimmy Savile

FunnyLiveChildrenManPeopleMe

I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up.

Jessica Hagedorn

IdentityKnowNowMoreUpEvolve

To ask a pratfall comedian, a dishes-in-the-face comic like me, to lay back and bring none of that stuff to the script because it doesn't call for it? That's tough.

Jerry Lewis

MeToughBackAskBringCall

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

Robert Metcalfe

AwayGatesGivethGrove

I finally realized the happy medium, 'honey blonde' was the correct color and line for me.

Ann Sothern

HappyMeColorBlondeHoneyLine

If someone asked, 'Would you prefer to be thought of as St. Michael as opposed to the devil,' I might say St. Michael. But that choice is not really there, because you are in an environment in which you have natural predators and enemies.

Michael Ashcroft

ThoughtSomeoneDevilYouChoice

I owe my life and hope to the gospel.

John Piper

LifeHopeMy LifeGospelOwe

I was the person, I think, who first said the evening of September 11 that we shouldn't hold this against the Arab community, the Muslim community. We should focus on the individuals and that groups that were involved and not participate in group blame.

Rudy Giuliani

CommunityFocusBlameThinkEvening

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

Michel Foucault

WorkJusticeSocietyQuestionAlways

I'm surrounded by music; I always was when I was growing up and continue to be. And I love music. And when I imagine a fictional world, I imagine there's music in it for those people, too.

Lorrie Moore

LoveMusicPeopleGrowing UpWorld

The extraordinary genius of John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie 100 years ago was their recognition that the great wealth they had amassed could be put to public good and used to solve the complex problems for which there were no other sources of capital.

Judith Rodin

GoodGreatProblemsGeniusWealth

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

Joyce Meyer

CompromiseYouGoKnowRightMeans

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