John adams Quote by Abigail Adams Download Open image “When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}” — Abigail Adams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare John Adam John adams Pages Wounded
“I am sore wounded but not slain I will lay me down and bleed a while And then rise up to fight again” — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“we need a god who bleeds now a god whose wounds are not some small male vengeance some pitiful concession to humility a desert swept with dryin marrow in honor of the lord we need a god who bleeds spreads her lunar vulva & showers us in shades of scarlet thick & warm like the breath of her our mothers… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share
“The page is as white as my face after a night of weeping. It is as sterile as my devastated mind. All martyrdoms are… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
So John took out of his pocket A knife both long and sharp, And stuck it through his brother's heart, And the blood came… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“A wound gives strange dignity to him who bears it. Well men shy from his new and terrible majesty. It is as if the… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
“So fragile—the human body. Just one prick and it will draw blood. Just one bullet and the bleeding will never stop.” — Tiana Dalichov Copy Share Image
“Surely, your readings must have taught you that when men and women of arms have bled to secure a time of peace, the very… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“A lot we have in our head, But things of heart are not yet dead, They have done none, but just fled, Out of… — Numey Copy Share Image
I desire no other inscription over my gravestone than: 'Here lies John Adams, who took upon himself the responsibility of peace with France in… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“I thought in my heart how seldom, even in this world, justice fails to overtake the murderer, and to enforce the righteous judgment of… — John William Polidori Copy Share Image
How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes… — Abigail Adams Copy Share
You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . . . . Four years have already past away since… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
“As we look over the list of the early leaders of the republic, Washington, John Adams, Hamilton, and others, we discern that they were all men who insisted upon being themselves and who refused to truckle to the people. With each succeeding generation, the growing demand of the people that its elective officials shall not lead but merely register the… — James Truslow Adams Copy Share
My favorite Founding Fathers, Christians like John Adams, were absolutely appalled by slavery, and did not own slaves. I think we're going to have… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Every answer he [President John Adams] gives to his addressers unmasks more and more his principles and views. His language to the young men… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“You go on, I presume, with your latin Exercises: and I wish to hear of your beginning upon Sallust who is one of the most polished and perfect of the Roman Historians, every Period of whom, and I had almost said every Syllable and every Letter is worth Studying. In Company with Sallust, Cicero, Tacitus and Livy, you will learn… — John Adams Copy Share
By the time [John Adams] came to write his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States in 1787 he had as dark a… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
By 1782 [John Adams] had come to feel for [Benjamin] Franklin "no other sentiments than Contempt or Abhorrence." — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
I think [John Adams] developed a much deeper suspicion of France and the other European powers than he had earlier. He lost much if… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
The economic answer to the world's problems is John Adams, not [Karl] Marx. — John Ringo Copy Share Image
When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
A mutual friend, Benjamin Rush, brought [Tomas Jefferson and John Adams] together in 1812, and they went on to exchange letters for the rest… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
“By their actions, the Founding Fathers made clear that their primary concern was religious freedom, not the advancement of a state religion. Individuals, not the government, would define religious faith and practice in the United States. Thus the Founders ensured that in no official sense would America be a Christian Republic. Ten years after the Constitutional Convention ended its work,… — Franklin T. Lambert Copy Share
John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and… — Mark Sheppard Copy Share Image