Cherish Quotes

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Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth; and I am sure...we both value too much the freedom of opinion sanctioned by our… — Thomas Jefferson
Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from… — Thomas Jefferson
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. — Max Eastman
I am speaking of the life of a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children;… — Wendell Berry
Our emotions may cry for vengeance in the wake of a horrible crime, but we know that killing the criminal will not undo the crime,… — Ramsey Clark
Only when I saw the Earth from space, in all its ineffable beauty and fragility, did I realize that humankind's most urgent task is to… — Sigmund Jahn
Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused into the minds… — Sarah Josepha Hale
A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him,… — Khalil Gibran
Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be numbered… — Plutarch
Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn; Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity. — Therese of Lisieux
Let us not be blind to our differences-but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences… — John F. Kennedy
We go to sanctuaries to remember the things we hold most dear, the things we cherish and love. And then-the great challenge-we return home seeking… — William Cronon
We can now destroy or we can cherish-the choice is ours. — David Attenborough
All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based -… — Carl Sagan
Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever before his eyes that… — James Madison
It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the same time to restrain the… — Thomas Jefferson
To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients,… — Alexander Hamilton
How much more do they deserve our reverence and praise, whose lives are devoted to the formation of institutions, which, when they and their children… — Joseph Story
People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go. — Ramsey Clark

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