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Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

Henry Ward Beecher

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: american
Birth: June 24, 1813 - March 8, 1887

Topics

Wisdom Best Past Roots Trees Result

Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work, or an artist getting ahead of his audience (it took me ten years to catch up to Albert Oehlen). Other times, however, these problems mean there's something wrong with the art.

Jerry Saltz

Work Art Me Problems Artist Wrong

All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

Johann Georg Hamann

Wisdom Grief Reward Human Worries

Cutting back on calories is not the answer to successful weight loss and successful health... you have to increase the quality of what you eat, not just reduce the quantity.

Joel Fuhrman

Health Quality Loss You Back Eat

When I was finishing guys, the media was on me like crazy.

Max Holloway

Me Crazy Media Finishing Like Guys

It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward.

John Portman

Life Man Accomplishment Reward His

I'm a little kid from St. Louis, Missouri, on the inside.

Sterling K. Brown

Inside Kid Little St. Louis Missouri

Usually, if I'm coming to Europe, I'm on a boat for seven days, so I spend the seven days doing a bunch of things. I'll do cardio for an hour or an hour-and-a-half and weights, just light weights.

Travis Barker

Light Boat Doing Europe Coming Days

As a kid, falling was embarrassing. As I got older, I got used to falling and picking myself back up. There's not a sense of failure. It's of disappointment. You train so hard to not make mistakes. When you do, you're learning from that. How do I improve? How do I get better for the next time? Through every failure, there's something to be learned.

Michelle Kwan

Learning Failure Time Myself Better

I would love to live in the wilds of nowhere, and when writing 'Chronicles,' I would occasionally rent a cottage in the middle of nowhere that had no mobile reception, but I'm not about to move away from my family.

Michelle Paver

Family Love Live Writing Rent Move

Sunspel is about British craft and community - both of which are very important to me.

Jonathan Anderson

Community Me Important Craft British

No question about that, the radicals are in charge.

Dixie Lee Ray

Question Charge About No Question

I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore.

Dominic Chianese

Play Tour