#erica

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all. ↗

— Benjamin C. Bradlee

#american politics #bodies #clout #had #history

I thought about the cameras following me in the terminal and pictured my family watching my entrance on TV. I hoped they’d be proud. ↗

— Kiera Cass

#family

It is no wonder that Satan hates the family and has hurled his venom against it in the form of Communism. ↗

— William R. Bowen

#communism #family #homeschooling #satan #family

One of the tragedies of current Christianity in America is that we have so few compelling illustrations of this life that Jesus lived and the type of radical community he came to create. Leading pastors and preachers are little more than family-friendly celebrities or game show hosts with all the razzle-dazzle and mass media presence that accompanies the position. ↗

— Ronnie McBrayer

#church #family

Most families are destroyed from the inside, because they allow themselves to be conquered by others from the outside. ↗

— Dr Carlton Young

#homelessness #family

I'd love to work in America, some of my favourite films come from America. ↗

— Cillian Murphy

#come #favourite #films #i #love

The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#care #cares #consciousness #european #got

Gazing around, looking up at the lofty pinnacles above, which seemed to pierce the sky, looking down upon the world,--it seemed the whole world, so limitless it stretched away at her feet,--feeling that infinite unspeakable sense of nearness to Heaven, remoteness from earth which comes only on mountain heights, she drew in a long breath of delight, and cried: "At last! at last, Alessandro! Here we are safe! This is freedom! This is joy! ↗

— Helen Hunt Jackson

#beauty #california #climbing #female-author #heaven

That's what America's all about, man, if it's about anything. You can choose your own name. ↗

— Michael Ventura

#freedom #names #freedom

The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write. ↗

— David McCullough

#government #john-adams #liberty #mccullough #politics-freedom-liberty