They Constitute Quotes
21 quotes by 21 authors
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We see community organizations as major service providers and economic drivers rather than as recipients or distributors of charity, and coordinators of volunteers. Today they…
— Julia Gillard
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In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.
— Gerald Brenan
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Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Facts, when combined with ideas, constitute the greatest force in the world. They are greater than armaments, greater than finance, greater than science, business and…
— Carl W. Ackerman
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The primary nature of every human being is to be open to life and love. Being guarded, armoured, distrustful and enclosed is second nature in…
— Alexander Lowen
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The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories.
— Anthony Storr
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Dharma has several connotations in South Asian religions, but in Buddhism it has two basic, interrelated meanings: dharma as 'teaching' as found in the expression…
— Taitetsu Unno
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It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the…
— Richard Wilbur
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... landscapes or still-lifes I paint in between the abstract works; they constitute about one-tenth of my production. On the one hand they are useful,…
— Gerhard Richter
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Become aware of your beliefs and automatic default settings. Bring them into the light of your present, adult knowledge. Gently acknowledge that they are what…
— Sue Thoele
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If there is any one duty which more than another we owe it to our children and our children's children to perform at once, it…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers, they arouse and…
— Henry Clay
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It is a fact that unless children are brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, they, and the society which they constitute…
— Charles Hodge
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The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine…
— Emanuel Swedenborg
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Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
— George Will
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We should be telling girls what they already know but rarely see affirmed: that the lives they lead inside their own self-contained bodies; the skills…
— Naomi Wolf
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The only purpose of cats is that they constitute mobile decorative objects.
— Muriel Barbery
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The universe is composed of subjects to be communed with, not objects to be exploited. Everything has its own voice. Thunder and lightening and stars…
— Thomas Berry
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Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute a sign of…
— Alexander von Humboldt
Who Wrote These They Constitute Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 21 They Constitute Quotes as follows: