Quotes from Thomas Starr King

I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder.

Nature never writes a blind hand.

Do not weep for me.

Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I'm mad, I weigh a ton.

What a privilege it is to be an American!

The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.

I know it is all right. I wish I could make you feel so, I wish I could describe my feelings.

The Man Without a Country, was an orator no one could silence and no one could answer.

It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.

It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.

Leaves are the Greek, flowers the Italian, phase of the spirit of beauty that reveals itself through the flora of the globe.