Stamps Quotes - Page 10

• As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.

  Plutarch

  Children, Mind, Instruction

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.8

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• the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps - lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.

  Agnes Repplier

  Lying, Book, Looks

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• In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw. In America we've managed to stamp it out almost completely, and few people under forty can remember a single moment of it, even in earliest childhood. The phrase 'spare time' has vanished from the land.

  Barbara Holland

  Falling In Love, Philosophy, Single Mom

  Barbara Holland (1999). “Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories”, Harcourt

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• Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can't get food stamps?

  Dolores Huerta

  Farming, Food Stamps, Nations

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• That is what they call being reconciled to die. They call it reconciled when pain has strummed a symphony of suffering back and forth across you, up and down, round and round you until each little fibre is worn tissue-thin with aching. And when you are lying beaten, and buffeted, battered and broken - pain goes out, joins hands with Death and comes back to dance, dance, dance, stamp, stamp, stamp down on you until you give up.

  Marita Bonner

  Death, Giving Up, Pain

  Marita Bonner (1987). “Frye Street & environs: the collected works of Marita Bonner”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• The purpose of the salt in the steak is to do its work so quietly that it changes the nature of what it invades without calling attention to itself. Salt must get into something in order to have effect, where it indelibly stamps its own character upon what it invades.

  George O. Wood

  Character, Order, Attention

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• It must be a source of great chagrin to those in charge to think of so many people being able to stick a stamp on a letter and drop it in a mail box without any trouble or suffering at all. They are probably working on a system this very minute, trying to devise some way in which the public can be made to fill out a blank, stand in line, consult some underling who will refer him to a superior, and then be made to black up with burned cork before they can mail a letter.

  Robert Benchley

  Thinking, People, Suffering

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• The genuine remains of Ossian, or those ancient poems which bear his name, though of less fame and extent, are, in many respects,of the same stamp with the Iliad itself. He asserts the dignity of the bard no less than Homer, and in his era, we hear of no other priest than he.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Names, Poetry, Eras

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.244, Xist Publishing

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• As a minister, you shouldn't imagine you know better than the technical experts in your ministry. In the end you're there to apply the political stamp of approval.

  Jeroen Dijsselbloem

  Political, Experts, Ministry

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• The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Greatness, Essence, Poetry

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.715, Simon and Schuster

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• In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like.

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Black, Race Relations

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.24, Modern Library

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• Stamps from Afghanistan are hilarious. You can tell when the revolutions are because suddenly they stop having pictures of the mullahs and the independence monument and they start having fish on them.

  Samuel West

  Independence, Revolution, Mullahs

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• I'm not a rubber stamp, and people know that. If you can convince me of the merits, you will have my vote every time.

  Fred Upton

  People, Rubber, Merit

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• The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls
  Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;
  The day returns, but nevermore
  Returns the traveler to the shore,
  And the tide rises, the tide falls.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Morning, Fall

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1899). “the Compelete Poetical Works”

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• Each servant stamps the reader with a look.

  John Ashbery

  Reading, Looks, Servant

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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• I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.

  Diane Lane

  Hands, Letters, Mail

  "Richard Gere and Diane Lane interview – NIGHTS IN RODANTHE". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. September 26, 2008.

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• Concerning First Amendment fetishism - A federal subsidy for a photo of a crucifix suspended in a jar of urine is fine, but religious figures on stamps are offensive.

  Don Feder

  Christian, Religious, Subsidies

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• The resurrection of Jesus Christ was necessary to establish the truth of his mission and put the stamp of all-conquering power on his gospel.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Jesus, Resurrection, Conquer

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1907). “The Resurrection”

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• A federal court has ruled that the U.S. Postal Service must reduce its stamp prices. The change in stamp prices is expected to affect as many as seven Americans.

  Conan O'Brien

  Seven, Court, Postal Service

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• One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies take the place of mental processes and revolts, crimes, despairs pass off in a dribble of vague words and rubber stamp phrases without leaving a scratch on the mind of the driven instalment-paying, subway-packing mass.

  John Dos Passos

  Memories, Leaving, Mind

  John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”

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• It is so often the odd, the unexpected, the apparently trifling, that stamps itself upon the memory for ever, while much more memorable things pass away like a breath of wind.

  Esther Meynell

  Memories, Memorable, Wind

  Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]

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• My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.

  Adam Carolla

  Mom, Kind, Welfare

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• There are as many fools at a university as anywhere? But their folly,I admit, has a certain stampthe stamp of university training, if you like. It is trained folly.

  William Gerhardie

  Training, Fool, You Like It

  1925 Polyglots, ch.7.

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• Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.

  Hank Johnson

  Jobs, Feet, Faults

  "Ryan Budget More Fuzzy Math and Magic Asterisks" by Rep. Hank Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2014.

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• Fascism, in so far as it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. It thus repudiates the doctrine of Pacifism - born of a renunciation of struggle and an act of cowardice in the face of sacrifice. War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the people who have the courage to meet it.

  Benito Mussolini

  War, Believe, Struggle

  " Fascism, Anti-Fascism, and the Resistance in Italy : 1919 to the Present" by Stanislao G. Pugliese, (p. 89), 2004.

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