Accessible Quote by Katharine Lee Bates

The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill.

— Katharine Lee Bates

Warwick Castle, built of the very centuries, cannot be expected to alter with time's 'brief hours and weeks' - at least, with so few…

— Katharine Lee Bates

It is the hour to rend thy chains, The blossom time of souls.

— Katharine Lee Bates

America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shinning sea!

— Katharine Lee Bates

O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain…

— Katharine Lee Bates

O beautiful for spacious skies, . . . O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved, And…

— Katharine Lee Bates

0 beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed his grace…

— Katharine Lee Bates

Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.

— Katharine Lee Bates

Adversity is the true school of the mind.

— Katharine Lee Bates

Spanish children are too often ill-cared for, but despite the abuses of ignorant motherhood and fatherhood, such vivid, vivacious, bewitching little people as they…

— Katharine Lee Bates

Shakespeare's frequent horseback journeys from London to Stratford, and from Stratford to London, must have made him familiar with the county of Oxfordshire.

— Katharine Lee Bates

Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death,…

— Katharine Lee Bates