Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
-Guy de Maupassant, short story writer and novelist (1850-1893)
Life in the eyes
When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the truth,
And taken in exchange -- my youth.
-Sara Teasdale, poet (1884-1933)
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the truth,
And taken in exchange -- my youth.
-Sara Teasdale, poet (1884-1933)
...the homeless
Give me your tired, your poor, /
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, /
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. /
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, /
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
-Emma Lazarus, poet and playwright (1849-1887)
[from a poem written to raise funds for building the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty]
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, /
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. /
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, /
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
-Emma Lazarus, poet and playwright (1849-1887)
[from a poem written to raise funds for building the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty]
...brilliance continues
There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly bright when the night is dark. They light the way for humankind.
-Hannah Senesh, poet, playwright, and paratrooper (1921-1944)
...conquer ourselves
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
-Edmund Hillary, mountaineer and explorer (1919-2008)
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