Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Sergeant Wise

That settled Abraham Lincoln with me. I was thoroughly satisfied that no such man ought to be President; but I could not yet conceive it possible that such a monster would be the choice of a majority of the people for President.

Jose Antonio Vargas

The Internet is changing the way we think of our relationship with government; it has the potential to bring to life what Abraham Lincoln said about the presidency being an instrument of the people.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? / Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance: / And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? / And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

Chris Johnson

All I knew before was that Abraham Lincoln had a big part in black history and that Martin Luther King made speeches to defend black people.

Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.

Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

Abraham is one of my better defenders. Roman, of course, has been (our) leading scorer all year long.

And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

Steve Forbes

Consider this, for starters. Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, which has defined the character of the nation, is all of 268 words. The Declaration of Independence runs about 1,300 words. The Constitution, which has served us for more than two centuries, comes to some 5,000 words. The Holy Bible has 773,000 words. The federal income tax code and all of its attendant rules and regulations: 9 million words and rising.

You have to remember, we're talking about 1861 or 1862. Abraham Lincoln was president. Local potters had to make these items from clay found in the area. We have some pieces with the fingerprints of the potters still on them.

Sam Waterston

If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.

Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.

It was in the early 1960s that my late revered teacher, Professor Abraham Joshua Heschel, became the first major Jewish theologian in America to enter into dialogue with Christian theologians on a high theological level.

It's a mixed bag. What was it that Adlai Stevenson said? I think he quoted Abraham Lincoln when he said it hurts too much to laugh, but I'm too old to cry. So it is a mixed bag like that.

Everybody in the world knows the town of Gettysburg. A lot of children know about Abraham Lincoln. If they know about Lincoln, they know about the Gettysburg Address. Next to people's own hometown, Gettysburg is the most beloved small town in America. When people hear the words Gettysburg and casino, they have a strong visceral reaction that it doesn't fit.

It's the most successful created national holiday since Abraham Lincoln established Thanksgiving.

Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.

Change is good and for John Abraham moving forward, change would be good for him. You get to a point in your career as a player when there's been some unfulfilled promises ... you have to move through that because it's a business. That's what we've been able to do with John, have his sights set on a brighter future.

But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.

Deepa Mehta

Honestly it is of no consequence to me. My film has some of the loveliest performances I have seen. John Abraham and Lisa Ray will be right up there with the hottest Hollywood men and women after Water.

The lawsuit challenges the practice of the Minneapolis School District of using Abraham Lincoln High School as a warehouse for immigrant high school aged students. Students sat in mainstream classrooms for years, not understanding what was being said, or what was being taught.

Theodore Roosevelt

If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln.

And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.

And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.

And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD: / And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.

And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land.

The civil rights movement, owes Bull Connor as much as it owes Abraham Lincoln

Doris Goodwin

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln,

James Wolfe

The formidable Heights of Abraham are now surmounted; and the city of Quebec, the object of all our toils, now stands in full view before us.

The furthest thing from Abraham Lincoln's mind would have been to interfere with the honoring of fallen Confederate soldiers by families, comrades or their ancestors.