Fortifying Quotes
18 quotes by 17 authors
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We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many years to pass before people…
— Ralph Nader
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My art speaks and will continue to speak, transcending barriers of nationality, language and other forces that may be divisive, fortifying the greatness of the…
— Norval Morrisseau
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As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement.
— James T. Walsh
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Therefore, doing the Stations of the Cross was still more laborious than consoling, and required a sacrifice. It was much the same with all my…
— Thomas Merton
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Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening, relaxing…
— Jane Austen
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The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us…
— Carl L. Becker
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Focus on guilt will always breed fear, and focus on innocence will always breed love. Any time we project guilt onto someone else, we are…
— Marianne Williamson
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Nothing is more fortifying than learning that you have a real reader, a reader who truly responds both accurately and actively. It gives you courage,…
— Deborah Eisenberg
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All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to…
— James F. Cooper
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Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul…
— George Santayana
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[Robin Stewart] was your man. True for you, you had withdrawn the crutch from his sight, but still it should have been there in your…
— Dorothy Dunnett
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Waking, after all, was an almost natal state. You surfaced without history, then spent the blinks and yawns reassembling your past, shuffling the shards into…
— Dennis Lehane
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I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day…
— John Green
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Disasters happen. We still have no way to eliminate earthquakes, wildfires, hurricanes, floods or droughts. We cope as best we can by fortifying ourselves against…
— Seth Shostak
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The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us…
— Carl Becker
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Protecf your children from daily worldly influences by fortifying them with the powerful blessings that result from family prayer
— FamilySharecom
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Anglo-American culture seems to be governed by the perverse belief that portrayals of the body's abuse or destruction are harmless, even fortifying, while those that…
— Walter Kendrick
Who Wrote These Fortifying Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 18 Fortifying Quotes as follows: