Decrepit Quote by Gerrit Smith Download Open image “There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous.” — Gerrit Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Decrepit Rooms Vigorous Wells Young
Members that were in their early-20s are now in their mid-30s, so the style of our team should also change. — Ok Taec-yeon Copy Share Image
If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
In the old days rank was not important - The complete opposite of today. You just trained — Higa Yuchoku Copy Share Image
When we are young there's a certain freshness we lose with the years. — Jocelyn Wildenstein Copy Share Image
Nothing is more incumbent on the old than to know when they should get out of the way and relinquish to younger successors the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and it shelters… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned,… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations. — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God. — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families. — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system. — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate inside me operating the levers of a life-size Oliver-shaped shell. A shell on which a decrepit picture show replays the same handful of images. Every night I come to the same place and wait till the… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share
I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic. — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Autumn is the very soul of metamorphosis, a time when the world is poised at the door of winter - which is the door of death - but has not yet fallen. It is a world of contradictions: a time of harvest and plenty but also of cold and hardship. Here we dwell in the midst of life, but we… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share
If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load which is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest… — John Milton Copy Share
I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it.… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures, that even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else from early boyhood to… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image