We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles… — Charles Hamilton Houston Copy Share Image
Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in Summer, and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with… — Sonya Hartnett Copy Share Image
All things with which we deal preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness,… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Do not cringe and make yourself small if you are called the black sheep, the maverick, the lone wolf. Those with slow… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, But which will bloom… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
It is no accident that on the whole there was more beauty and decency to be found in the life of the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs; and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There's a segment of this world, there's a mind state that's permeated the intellectual consciousness of this world that comes from a… — El-P Copy Share Image
“Friendships fail some years, blight twists the leaves and the crop is bitter. Frost bites or sudden fire devours: but the root… — Charlotte Gray Copy Share Image
It's hard to believe that, in the 1970's, America was virtually hunger-free. During the past two decades, we have allowed hunger to… — Kurtwood Smith Copy Share Image
Racism is a blight on the human conscience. The idea that any people can be inferior to another, to the point where… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“I watched the first shoots like wings tearing the soil, and it was my heart broken by the blight, the black spot… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
Hide in your heart a bitter thought, Still it has power to blight; Think Love, although you speak it not It gives… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a… — Henry Fairlie Copy Share Image
I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit. — Dan Gilbert Copy Share Image
“It happened every single day in Brooklyn: awaken to fresh glory, fall asleep to blight and ruin.” — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Environmental pollution is a blight on people's quality of life and a trouble that weighs on their hearts. — Li Keqiang Copy Share Image
And yet one carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I find those wind turbines around Lake George to be utterly offensive. I think they're just a blight on the landscape. — Joe Hockey Copy Share Image
Blight has descended on our regulatory agencies - and a dry rot, beginning in Washington, is seeping into every corner of America… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Everything that I see must become personal; otherwise, it is dead and mechanical. Our only chance to escape the blight of mechanization,… — Clarence John Laughlin Copy Share Image
“One day when I ventured into the garden to regard its bloom, My eyes beheld on a bower a withered rose. When… — Musharraf Ali Farooqi Copy Share Image
And what if thou, sweet May, hast known Mishap by worm and blight; If expectations newly blown Have perished in thy sight;… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
There's a curse on me as there's a curse on the Larkin name. The curse comes back, again and again, to taunt… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
My life used to be boring. A damnation here, a curse there, with an occasional blight or two to break routine. Now… — Katie MacAlister Copy Share Image
It is quite easy to debase the sport, change its values, dilute its ethics and destroy its traditional associations with quietness, relaxation… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
