#ld

Christopher Reeve understood that... everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body. ↗

— Patti Davis

#again #begins #belief #body #broken

Even if the Bush Administration had flung open the gates to stem-cell research years ago, we would not be at the point of offering treatment today. Christopher Reeve would still have been taken from us. But we would be closer. ↗

— Patti Davis

#ago #been #bush #bush administration #cell research

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#chief #child #cradle #devil #every

It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#call #day #great #happened #many

It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#closely #down #glow #good #heart

It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#circumstances #content #could #difficult #difficult circumstances

I don't expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets. ↗

— Bjork

#expect #get #gets #i #i think

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way. ↗

— Richard Harding Davis

#good writing #new #new thing #new way #old

I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#all things #army #become #big #could

Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#being #children #everyone #heavy #i