Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quotes

Fields are won by those who believe in the winning.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: theologian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 22, 1823 - May 9, 1911

Topics

WinningBelieveFieldsWhoThose

This is how a revolution begins. It begins when someone grows tired of standing idly by, waiting for history's arc to bend toward justice, and instead decides to give it a swift shove. It begins when a black seamstress named Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in the segregated South.

Jo Becker

HistoryJusticeManTiredWaiting

Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother.

Jeffrey Jones

BrotherSeeingWayWellDifferent

I'm not pro-business. I'm pro-free enterprise.

Jeb Hensarling

Enterprise

When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

John Woolman

FamilyMenReligionSocietyStrong

My head is pretty small.

Torrey Smith

SmallHeadPretty

Vladimir Putin is decisive. He's committed to victory, and he now has aircraft and surface-to-air missiles and main battle tanks in Syria.

Tom Cotton

VictoryBattleNowTanksCommitted

I had never had a particularly warm feeling about Richard Nixon, and it didn't get any warmer after my service.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

ServiceWarmFeelingNeverGetAny

I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.

Roland Joffe

RespectCinemaKnowTalkJustWould

I think it's impossible to maintain a good, strong, muscular physique without taking some supplements. Between the protein shakes and the multivitamins that I take, I use C4, the pre-workout mix. I try to keep it as basic as I can, but I think I would shrink and disappear if I stopped taking protein shakes.

Joseph Gatt

GoodImpossibleStrongThinkI Can

A lot of people might say, 'He must be seeing this person because he has problems,' but actually, the truth is it's a strength to realise you're doing things wrong... and it's a strength to get help.

Joseph Parker

StrengthTruthPeopleProblemsHelp

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

Joseph Stalin

WaterIronSincereDryLikeWooden

We wanted to establish a new fan base over here. And second, we wanted to challenge ourselves. We wanted to bring what is ostensibly new music to fresh ears and see what lights them up.

Bob Weir

MusicChallengeLightsNewOverSee

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