Famous Quotes & Sayings

Caleb Cushing

I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.

David Brooks

Freedom without structure is its own slavery.

Beau Willimon

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

Benjamin Franklin

Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Can you get it? (Jaden) If I swear myself to eternal slavery to Artemis. Yes. (Acheron) I’d rather trade places with Prometheus and have my innards ripped out every day. (Jaden) So would I. (Acheron)

Lisa Kristine

Slavery is illegal everywhere, but it exists all over the world.

Friedrich Engels

The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.

Helen Hayes

Stardom can be a gilded slavery.

Mahatma Gandhi

A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.

Adrian McKinty

After secondary school, the big thing to do was apply for uni in England or Scotland and then just stay there.

Brian Skerry

New England waters are some of my favorite - they are some of the richest waters because they are temperate waters and nutrient-rich, and therefore provide food for so many animals, from giant whales to sharks to everything else.

William Wallace

I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Scotland is free!

Shirley MacLaine

I don't like leaving my dog when I go to England and she is with me all the time.

P. J. O'Rourke

I've only been to New Zealand once, about 1989. It was incredibly beautiful, kind of like the ideal of where I live in New England - all that and then some - but I can't say I was there long enough to get any very clear idea.

Noam Chomsky

The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s.

Alice Morse Earle

In the early New England meeting-houses the seats were long, narrow, uncomfortable benches, which were made of simple, rough, hand-riven planks placed on legs like milking-stools.

Steven Gerrard

was something for the England manager to consider, not me.

Alan Moore

I've got nothing against America, but I went over there a couple of times and didn't really like it. I mean, not that I like England that much, but it's somewhere to live.

Craig McHugh

The patent application was to protect our invention. As you can see . . . the invention is significant.

Edgar Degas

One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.

Eli Whitney

An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor,

Brandee Bryant

You can be involved and not have ever thought about science or invention in your life. You can have a lot of fun.

Gore Vidal

Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us.

Ernest Hemingway

His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.

Francis Bacon

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

Frank Stella

Once I really started to understand Frank Stella's work and follow it, there's a certain type of invention and playfulness and extreme rigor with which he kept going forward.

Jeff Bezos

Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.