Stamps Quotes - Page 9

• We're born first humans then after they stamp our passport.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Firsts, Born, Passports

  "Alfonso Cuaron on How Angelina Jolie and Robert Downey Jr. Almost Starred in 'Gravity'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 18, 2014.

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• If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.

  Donald Hall

  Real, Wish, Want

  Donald Hall (1994). “Death to the death of poetry: essays, reviews, notes, interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• The Book, this Holy Book, on every line,
  Mark'd with the seal of high divinity,
  On every leaf bedew'd with drops of love
  Divine, and with the eternal heraldry
  And signature of God Almighty stamp'd
  From first to last; this ray of sacred light,
  This lamp, from off the everlasting throne,
  Mercy took down, and in the night of time
  Stood, casting on the dark her gracious bow;
  And evermore beseeching men With tears
  And earnest sighs, to read, believe and live.

  Robert Pollok

  Bible, Book, Believe

  Robert Pollok, “The Course Of Time. Book Ii.”

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• Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind
  To stamp a lasting image of the mind!
  Beasts may convey, and tuneful birds may sing,
  Their mutual feelings, in the opening spring;
  But Man alone has skill and power to send
  The heart's warm dictates to the distant friend;
  'Tis his alone to please, instruct, advise
  Ages remote, and nations yet to rise.

  George Crabbe

  Spring, Heart, Men

  George Crabbe (1858). “The Poetical Works of George Crabbe”, p.60

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• When I was a kid, I didn't collect stamps, or weird toys, or anything. I don't even have music - I don't even have a CD collection. So that's not really my thing.

  Victor Garber

  Kids, Cds, Toys

  "Victor Garber on his love for Judy Collins and his bar mitzvah encore". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. July 3, 2015.

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• Lull'd in the countless chambers of the brain,
  Our thoughts are link'd by many a hidden chain;
  Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise!
  Each stamps its image as the other flies!

  Samuel Rogers

  Brain, Links, Chains

  Samuel Rogers (1802). “The Pleasures of Memory ... By the author of "An Ode to Superstition, with some other poems" i.e. Samuel Rogers . Fourth edition”, p.14

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• Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.

  Joseph Joubert

  Truth, Loving Nature, Soul

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• No hardy perennial has the enduring quality of hope. Cut it to the roots, stamp it underfoot, let frost and fire work their will, and still some valiant shoot will push, to grow again on such scanty fare as it can find. Only time and the cruel quicklime of fact can destroy that stubborn urgency.

  Rachel Field

  Hope, Cutting, Fire

  Rachel Field (1946). “And Now Tomorrow”

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• Mothers ... would do anything to steer their daughter the right way. It is frustrating beyond measure for them when a daughter screams, 'You don't understand, and you'll never understand!' The mother stamps her foot in aggravation, but in this case the daughter is right: the mother doesn't understand. She merely remembers, and memory is separate from experience.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Daughter, Mother, Memories

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• There are personalities so powerful that they leave their stamp on any place they inhabit. Their presence is always there, like a spoor, whether or not they themselves are.

  Caroline Llewellyn

  Powerful, Personality

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• In the homes of America are born the children of America; and from them go out into American life, American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them; and only as these homes are what they should be, will they be what they should be.

  J. G. Holland

  Children, Home, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 324, 1895.

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• Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Indulge In, Clothes, Gentleman

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• Fifteen cents of every twenty-cent stamp goes for storage.

  Louis Rukeyser

  Twenties, Fifteen, Cents

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• I'm not living off of any taxpayer money. If I am - if it's food stamps, it's a temporary resource.

  Nadya Suleman

  Resources, Food Stamps, Taxpayers

  "Her side of the story". "Dateline" with Ann Curry, www.nbcnews.com. February 10, 2009.

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• Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the cradle and the realm of public opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world's university, at once a school and a theater, the spur and the crown of ambition, the tribunal which unmasks pretension and stamps real merit, the power that gives government leave to be, and outruns the lazy Church in fixing the moral sense of the eye.

  Wendell Phillips

  Sex, Real, School

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.244

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• Sometimes I not only stand there and take it, I even smile at them and say I'm sorry. When I feel that smile coming onto my face, I wish I could take my face off and stamp on it.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Sorry, Wish, Faces

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “Very Far Away from Anywhere Else”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I definitely prefer things to be dark, I definitely prefer things to not be particularly obvious. I like a lot of mystery in music, and I like it when things don't sound just like what they sound like always. But at the same time I like everything to sound very earnest and honest. So I don't really think that I have a definite stamp, but if people see that, that's awesome.

  John Congleton

  Dark, Thinking, People

  "John Congleton: Meet Indie Rock's Unsung Hero Of 2011". Interview with Mike Katzif, www.npr.org. December 23, 2011.

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• I do not intend to allow the Senate to rubber-stamp the president's plan to reward the Chinese Communists.

  Jesse Helms

  Chinese, President, Rubber

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• If poor people want food stamps, they should become massive corporations.

  Stephen Colbert

  People, Want, Corporations

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• Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hero, Men, Dare

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.114

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• To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of a little mind; but it requires a soul of no common stamp to be satisfied with its own acquittal, and to despise the condemnation of the world.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Soul, Secret, Mind

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.137

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• Every year, in the deep midwinter, there descends upon this world a terrible fortnight. ... every shop is a choked mass of humanity ... nerves are jangled and frayed, purses emptied to no purposes, all amusements and all occupations suspended in favor of frightful businesses with brown paper, string, letters, cards, stamps, and crammed post offices. This period is doubtless a foretaste of whatever purgatory lies in store for human creatures.

  Rose Macaulay

  Christmas, Lying, Years

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• The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp.

  Pierre Bayle

  Affliction, Impression, Furnaces

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• Now see what a Christian is, drawn by the hand of Christ. He is a man on whose clear and open brow God has set the stamp of truth; one whose very eye beams bright with honor; in whose very look and bearing you may see freedom, manliness, veracity; a brave man--a noble man--frank, generous, true, with, it may be, many faults; whose freedom may take the form of impetuosity or rashness, but the form of meanness never.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Christian, Eye, Men

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons”, p.316

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• In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom they are applied; but in their descendants they are too often the marks rather of grandeur than of merit. The stamp and denomination still continue, but the intrinsic value is frequently lost.

  Joseph Addison

  Honor, Titles, Ancestry

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1819). “The Spectator”, p.21

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