Friend Quotes

Raise your words,

not your voice.

It is rain that grows flowers,

not thunder.

You can’t produce a baby in one month

by getting nine women pregnant.

We are the change we have been waiting for.

With Malice toward none,

with charity for all,

with firmness in the right,

as God gives us to see the right,

let us strive on to finish the work we are in,

to bind up the nation's wounds.

I never took a day off in my twenties.

Not one.

Good breeding consists in concealing

how much we think of ourselves and

how little we think of the other person.

I've heard there are troubles of more than one kind;

some come from ahead,

and some come from behind.

But I've brought a big bat.

I'm all ready, you see,

now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

Knowledge of what is does not open the door

directly to what should be.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

The strength of a nation lies in the character of its people.

Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.

It is the duty of every astronomer to dedicate his life to

understanding the cosmos.

The most powerful person in the world is

the storyteller.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

Small countries must think smart and act fast.

One moment can change a day,

one day can change a life,

and one life can change the world.

I should like to know if,

taking this old Declaration of Independence,

which declares that all men are equal upon principle,

you begin making exceptions to it,

where will you stop?

If one man says it does not mean a Negro,

why not another say it does not mean some other man?

If you aren’t willing to own a stock for 10 years,

don’t even think about owning it for 10 minutes.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers.

This is a cruel libel,

even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.