FEATURE image: Office library, Frances E. Willard House, Evanston, Illinois, October 2015. Author’s photograph.
Rev. C.T. Vivian (1924-2020), American minister, author, and civil rights leader. (65 Quotes).
Rev. C.T. Vivian died on July 17, 2020 at 95 years old. Rev. Vivian was born in Boonville, Missouri, and migrated as a child with his mother to Macomb, Illinois. Rev. Vivian grew up to attend Western Illinois University (WIU) in Macomb, Illinois, where he worked as the sports editor for the student newspaper. In […]
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Quotations: the Wisdom of the Heart. (14 Quotes).
Can you walk on water? You have done no better than a piece of straw. Can you fly in the air? You have done no better than a bluebottle. Conquer your heart; then you may become somebody. Abdullah Ansari of Herat (1006-1088), quoted in Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy, 1945. A spiritual master and the […]
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Quotations: Kim Tschang-Yuel (1929-2021). (1 Quote).
I lived with the seriousness of someone who has caught a tiger by the tail. Once you have caught hold of a tiger’s tail, you have to follow it all the way to the end, on pain of being eaten alive. Kim Tschang-Yuel (1929-2021), painter of water drops. From an interview with critic and curator […]
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Quotations: President Watching. (16 Quotes).
“The advent of the new president changed everything. The Roosevelts transformed the White House as completely as the swift march of public thoughts and events had changed the country. No longer did the Executive Mansion resemble a medieval castle besieged by the forces of progress. The drawbridges were figuratively let down, and the moats drained […]
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Quotations: Archbishop Derek Worlock (1920-1990). (1 Quote).
Derek Worlock (February 4, 1920 – February 6. 1996) was an English priest in the Roman Catholic Church and the Archbishop of Liverpool. Worlock was committed to collaboration with all his fellow Christians. Worlock co-authored the books Better Together and With Hope in our Hearts (1995) with the Anglican Bishop of Liverpool, David Sheppard. Worklock’s motto […]
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Quotations: Chief Joseph (c.1840-1904), Nez Percé leader. (3 Quotes).
Somebody has got our horses. Reaction to violation of surrender treaty terms by U.S. Government. “When the terms of surrender were violated by the government, [Chief] Joseph did not dig up the tomahawk and go on the warpath again…. He…. spoke with a straight tongue , and was a gentleman of his word. Nor did […]
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Quotations: Pope Saint John XXIII (Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli), 1881-1963. (2 Quotes).
One day John XXIII visited the Hospital of the Holy Spirit in Rome. Deeply stirred by the pope’s visit, the mother superior whose nuns administered the hospital, went up to introduce herself. “Most Holy Father,” she announced, “I am the Superior of the Holy Spirit!” “Well, I must say you’re lucky,” the pope said. “I’m […]
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Quotations: Henry Miller (1891-1980), U.S. Author. (4 Quotes).
Featured Image: Henry Miller, Paris. Photography by Brassaï, 1931. We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it, it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it, it means danger, revolution, anarchy. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (1945). The world dies over and […]
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Quotations: The Book of Joshua (Books of the Bible). (98 Quotes).
FEATURE image: Joshua Commanding the Sun, Raphael, c.1515, fresco, Rome, Vatican. Public Domain. Introduction by John P. Walsh. Begins Israel’s story of the conquest of Canaan (1405 BCE) The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible. It is the same for Christians in the Old Testament. It is the first book […]
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Quotations: Lord Byron (George Gordon), (English Romantic Poet, 1788-1824). (15 Quotes).
Featured Image: George Gordon (Lord Byron) by Richard Westall (1765-1836). National Portrait Gallery, London. Lord Byron (George Gordon), 1788-1824, Letter to poet Thomas Moore, October 28, 1815. Byron’s Letters and Journals, vol. 4 (1973-81; edited by Leslie A. Marchand). Lord Byron (George Gordon), 1788-1824, Byron’s Letters and Journals, vol. 8 (1973-81; edited by Leslie A. […]
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Quotations: John Keats (English Romantic Poet, 1795-1821). (7 Quotes).
Featured Image: John Keats (detail) by Joseph Severn (1793-1879), 1819. John Keats’s first book of poems was published in 1817 when the English poet was 22 years old. From an early age, Keats, studying under the literary Rev. John Clarke, became a passionate reader of poetry and was introduced to the theater and music which […]
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Quotations: Michael Bloomberg. (40 Quotes).
Michael Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is an American businessman, politician, and author. He is the CEO and majority owner of Bloomberg L.P, which he co-founded. Bloomberg was the mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013 where he presided over a period of relative prosperity as well as controversial city-wide policies and practices such as […]
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A Room With A View (1908) by E.M. Forster (1879-1970). 243 quotes from the novel in chapter order.
FEATURED Image: Loggia dei Lanzi – Piazza della Signoria, Florence – seen from the Uffizi Gallery by ell brown. This image was marked with a CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 license. Edward Morgan Forster (1879–1970) is an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. The heart of Forster’s literary work is humanist in nature as his characters depict—whether in Where […]
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Quotations: Saint John Henry Newman (1801-1890). (39 Quotes).
FEATURE image: chalk drawing of John Newman, 1844, by George Richmond, National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, London. Introduction by John P. Walsh John Henry Newman (1801-1890) was a theologian and poet who was first an Anglican priest and later a Roman Catholic priest and cardinal. In the 1830’s and until his conversion to Catholicism in 1845, Newman was a leading figure in the […]
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Quotations: Buddy Miles. (1 Quote).
Buddy Miles (1947-2008) was an American rock drummer, vocalist, composer, and producer. He was member of Electric Flag (1967) and a member of Jimi Hendrix’s Band of Gypsys (1969–1970). He was founder and leader of the Buddy Miles Express (1968-1994).
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Walter Cronkite, the “Most Trusted Man in America,” gives advice to today’s news media on what would be his 100th birthday. (26 Quotes).
CBS newsman Walter Cronkite speaks at a ceremony at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington celebrating the 35th anniversary of Apollo 11 in 2004. By John P. Walsh, November 4, 2016. INTRODUCTION The date of November 4, 2016 is American newsman Walter Cronkite’s 100th birthday. The CBS News anchor died in 2009 at […]
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Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968). (5 Quotes).
I came to see that so many people who supported, morally and even financially, what we were doing in Birmingham and Selma were really outraged against the extremist behavior of Bull Connor and Jim Clark toward Negroes rather than believing in genuine equality for Negroes. And I think this is what we’ve gotta see now, […]
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