Quotes by American Authors - Page 40

The strength of a nation especially of a republican nation is in the intelligent and well-ordered homes of the people.
Lydia Sigourney
A man builds a fine house and now he has a master and a task for life is to furnish watch show it and keep it in repair the rest of his life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Home is the place where when you have to go there They have to take you in.
Robert Frost
Where thou art that is Home.
Emily Dickinson
A man's home is his wife's castle.
Alexander Chase
Fortunately for children the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.
Gelsey Kirkland
If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I fear there will be no future for those who do not change.
Louis L'Amour
For you and me today is all we have tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.
Louis L'Amour
The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.
Gene Brown
The future is much like the present only longer.
Dan Quisenberry
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson
When I look to the future it's so bright it burns my eyes.
Oprah Winfrey
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I have always been driven by some distant music-a battle hymn no doubt-for I have been at war from the beginning. I've never looked back before. I've never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous.
Bette Davis
Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.
Marilyn French
The future is wider than vision and has no end.
Donald G. Mitchell
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Charles F. Kettering
When I look at the future it's so bright it burns my eyes.
Oprah Winfrey
Yesterday is not ours to recover but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Lyndon B. Johnson
The future is hope!
John Fiske
To the being of fully alive the future is not ominous but a promise it surrounds the present like a halo.
John Dewey
The future is the most expensive luxury in the world.
Thornton Wilder
Tomorrow is the mysterious unknown guest.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Henry Ward Beecher
We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.
Ruth Benedict
Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We need not be afraid of the future for the future will be in our own hands.
Thomas E. Dewey
The future is called "perhaps " which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
Tennessee Williams
If you are afraid for your future you don't have a present.
James Petersen
It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.
E. H. Harriman
Everyone has it within his power to say this I am today that I shall be tomorrow.
Louis L'Amour
After all tomorrow is another day.
Scarlett O'Hara
I have been nothing ... but there is tomorrow.
Louis L'Amour
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
Ruth Benedict
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task but you will succeed if you persevere and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
Helen Keller
When all else is lost the future still remains.
Christian Bovee
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln
There is no data on the future.
Laurel Cutler
There is only one large circle that we march in around and around each of us with our own little picture-in front of us-our own little mirage that we think is the future.
Lorraine Hansbury
It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.
Anya Seton
Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.
Walter Lippman
The future comes one day at a time.
Dean Acheson
With high hope for the future no prediction is ventured.
Abraham Lincoln
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes in to us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands and hopes we've learnt something from yesterday.
John Wayne
People are afraid of the future of the unknown. If a man faces up to it and takes the dare of the future he can have some control over his destiny. That's an exciting idea to me better than waiting with everybody else to see what's going to happen.
John H. Glenn
There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
Kathleen Norris
Summertime oh summertime pattern of life indelible the fade-proof lake the woods unshatterable the pasture with the sweetfern and the juniper forever and ever . . . the cottages with their innocent and tranquil design their tiny docks with the flagpole and the American flag floating against the white clouds in the blue sky the little paths over the roots of the trees leading from camp to camp. This was the American family at play escaping the city heat.
E B White
Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness natives give it solidity and continuity but the settlers give it passion.
E B White
To say the least a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That we are aggressive beings easily given to violence that we get along together because we must more than because we want to and that the brotherhood of man is about as far from reality today as it was two thousand years ago that reason's realm is small that we never have been and never shall be created equal that if the human being is perfectible he has so far exhibited few symptoms - all are considerations of man from which space tends to protect us.
Robert Ardrey
Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining but they make them artificial.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
Christopher Morley
Farmers worry only during the growing season but town people worry all the time.
Edgar Watson Howe
In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the big city everyone does not - only those you choose to tell will know about you. This is one of the attributes of cities that is precious to most city people.
Jane Jacobs
We might define an eccentric as a man who is law unto himself and a crank as one who having determined what the law is insists on laying it down to others.
Louis Kronenberger
City life - millions of people being lonesome together.
Henry David Thoreau