Crowns Quote by Giuseppe Garibaldi

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

— Barack Obama

The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.

— Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy…

— Henry Louis Gates

Whenever you think of Lincoln as a historian, in his own mind, he becomes the Great Emancipator. This is his role in history henceforth.…

— Eric Foner

Darwin was as much of an emancipator as was Lincoln.

— William Graham Sumner

Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.

— Anonymous

As a child I used to watch clouds, and in them, see faces, castles, animals, dragons, and giants. It was a world of escape--fantasy;…

— Barry B. Longyear

The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In search for God, you revert from what attracts you and…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm beer, the…

— Richard Rodriguez

Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the…

— Jack Canfield

“Scrawny little mundane bastard.”

— Cassandra Clare