#glory

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. ↗

— George Bancroft

#consent #crown #envy #excite #glory

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race. ↗

— Mary McLeod Bethune

#development #full #given #glory #history

Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#american #any #course #expansion #frontier

The colors of living things begin to fade with the last breath, and the soft, springy skin and supple muscle rot within weeks. But the bones sometimes remain, faithful echoes of the shape, to bear some last faint witness to the glory of what was. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#life #memory #faith

The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#image #offers #sharpness

In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens. ↗

— David Brin

#america #been #before #being #bio

Consciousness is the glory of creation. ↗

— James Broughton

#creation #glory

My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul. ↗

— Karel Capek

#capacity #dear #glory #intellectual #mechanically

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least. ↗

— Robert Browning

#glory #good #least #like #mine

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#calculators #chivalry #economists #europe #extinguished