Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

Henry Ward Beecher

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The celebrated film critic Pauline Kael once wrote that movies function as escape pods, portals to parallel universes that can be radically different from emotional norms and societal conditioning of our own. What she meant was they parceled out freedom, allowing viewers to lose their selves in an effort to find greater connection to the self.

Jenna Wortham

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In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion.

John Hume

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What Edward Snowden did amounted to the greatest hemorrhaging of legitimate American secrets in the history of my nation.

Michael Hayden

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The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

Amelia Earhart

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I didn't want to be selling insurance at 40, wondering what would it have been like to do stand-up.

Steven Wright

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I left Delhi in 1989 and remember very little of how life used to be then. Increasingly, in my recent visits to Delhi, I've started to realize that the city has become intellectually very lively. It makes me want to discover the city over and over again.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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I think for me, the most fun competition that I've had was my first Worlds.

Simone Biles

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I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.

Tom Chapin

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I would just love to be able to give back to figure skating.

Michelle Kwan

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That something that I fought so hard for throughout the beginning of my career is I didn't want to pancake my skin a lighter color to fit into the... ballet. I wanted to be myself. I didn't want to have to wear makeup that made my nose look thinner.

Misty Copeland

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Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable.

Mo Ibrahim

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All the people that criticised me should eat their words.

Diego Maradona

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