Thrown Upon Quotes
- I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful… — Jonathan Swift
- I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me. — Andrew Johnson
- I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event [Lincoln's assassination] which has so recently occurred. I feel incompetent to perform duties… — Andrew Johnson
- To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune. — Benjamin Franklin
- If the whole responsibility is thrown upon our own shoulders, we shall be at our highest and best; when we have nobody to grope towards,… — Swami Vivekananda
- How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage. — Florenz Ziegfeld
- As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women. — Samuel Johnson
- To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and… — Benjamin Franklin
- More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England. — Albert Bushnell Hart