Stranger Quotes - Page 36

• The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall wellcome to a participation of all our rights and previleges...

  George Washington

  Rights, America, Immigration

  "The Writings of George Washington" edited by John C. Fitzpatrick, vol. 27, (p. 254), 1938.

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• Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold.

  William Cowper

  Home, Men, Mind

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1851). “The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country : with a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.122

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• With no notice to the American people...this country entered the war...Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it.

  Garet Garrett

  Country, Peace, War

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• Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands.

  Leonidas I

  Death, Suicide, Lying

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• My story starts at sea... a perilous voyage to an unknown land... a shipwreck... The wild waters roar and heave... The brave vessel is dashed all to pieces, and all the helpless souls within her drowned... all save one... a lady... whose soul is greater than the ocean... and her spirit stronger than the sea's embrace... Not for her a watery end, but a new life beginning on a stranger shore. It will be a love story... for she will be my heroine for all time. And her name will be... Viola.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Ocean, Sea

  "Fictional character: William Shakespeare". "Shakespeare in Love", 1998.

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• Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Freedom, Emotional, Feelings

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.46, Harvard University Press

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• Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Stress, Health, Years

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• To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves - the ships, with men in them, what stranger miracles are there?

  Walt Whitman

  Beach, Ocean, Marine

  Walt Whitman (1861). “Leaves of Grass”, p.220

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• Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.

  Simon Cowell

  Nice, Flattery, Praise

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• I cannot think of a single field in biology or medicine in which we can claim genuine understanding, and it seems to me the more we learn about living creatures, especially ourselves, the stranger life becomes.

  Lewis Thomas

  Life, Science, Thinking

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• And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can repel us initially, but which can jerk us out of our habitual selfishness, and give us intonations of that sacred otherness, which is God.

  Karen Armstrong

  Religious, Giving, Selfishness

  "Now" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org.

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• By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.

  Homer

  Giving, Charity, Philanthropy

  Homer (2015). “The Odyssey”, p.249, Homer

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• As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology to include strangers on the Internet.

  Judy Biggert

  Children, Technology, Grandparent

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• There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.

  Mark Twain

  Song, Language, Cry

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.377, Xist Publishing

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• It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.

  Samuel Johnson

  Long, Peculiar, Found

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical”, p.264

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• Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Women, Heart

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging.

  Tom Glazer

  Exercise, Swimming, Thinking

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• [Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts as your colleagues, collaborators and partners and not as spies, traitors and wayward children. You can never develop a science that way, only an orthodox church.

  Abraham Maslow

  Children, Science, Thinking

  "New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution". Book by Colin Wilson, November 1960.

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• I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous.

  Robert Breault

  Two, Community, Feelings

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• In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land.

  Albert Camus

  Memories, Fear, Home

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.6, Vintage

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• Not feeling compassion for a stranger is like not feeling when one's foot has caught fire

  Confucius

  Compassion, Feet, Fire

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• Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out.

  Randall Munroe

  Inspirational, Life, Knowing

  Webcomic by Randall Munroe, xkcd.com.

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• Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Cute, Warfare

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.11, Lulu.com

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• Existence cares. When I say God cares I mean that existence cares for you, it is not indifferent. Let this be the foundation of your sannyas and then the temple can be raised very easily. It is easy to raise the temple once the foundation is rightly put. This is the foundation stone: remember that existence loves you, cares about you, is concerned about you; that you are not alienated, that you are not a stranger, that you are part of this great symphony, this orchestra, this celebration that goes on and on and knows no ending.

  Rajneesh

  Love You, Mean, Symphony

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• True Hospitality is welcoming the stranger on her own terms. This kind of hospitality can only be offered by those who've found the center of their lives in their own hearts.

  Henri Nouwen

  Home, Heart, Welcome

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