wisdom Quotes

• Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.

  - John Ruskin

• Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

  - Isabel Allende

• The real tragedy of England, as I see it, is the tragedy of ugliness. The country is so lovely: the man-made England is so vile.

  - D. H. Lawrence

• This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

  - John F. Kennedy

• The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

  - Theodore Roosevelt

• The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.

  - Calvin Coolidge

• Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice; for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason than the example and pattern of the opinions and customs of the country we live in.

  - Michel de Montaigne

• Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.

  - Samuel Adams

• This country was founded and built by people with great dreams and the courage to take great risks.

  - Ronald Reagan

• Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

  - Margaret Thatcher