#hem

The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal. ↗

— Olympia Brown

#been #doors #gates #giving #grandest

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#appear #disappears #hand #lot #order

Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I wish it was possible there were other ways to have them understand this music was here before they came, and the reason that it was here. ↗

— Ruth Brown

#believe #came #generation #had #here

Playtime and toys are good for kids, or they wouldn't buy them. McDonald's can provide that experience. And having dinner with the family is good for kids. ↗

— Jim Cantalupo

#dinner #experience #family #good #having

When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them something meaningful that makes them want to please you, not because anyone owes you anything. ↗

— Harry Browne

#anything #because #give #makes #meaningful

I'd rather see you drink a glass of wine than a glass of milk. So many people drink Coca-Cola and all these soft drinks with sugar. Some of these drinks have 8 or 9 teaspoons of sugar in them What's the good of living if you can't have the things that give a little enjoyment? ↗

— Jack LaLanne

#drink #drinks #enjoyment #give #glass

I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive. ↗

— William Wells Brown

#brothers #build #captive #chains #constitution

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them. ↗

— Thomas Browne

#end #evil #forcible #hatred #leave

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl? ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#because #blush #bodily #brow #dead

When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore. ↗

— Nigel Farage

#anybody #anymore #been #believes #eu