Quotes About Unity

While most people understandably took family for granted, he took it for grace.

If his wife was happy and his boy was happy, he was happy.

Then he prayed for (...) and all the rest who made up his world.

I say, forget religion. What it's about, is the two of you, you and him. Nothing more, nothing less.

Love shall be our token

History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels.

A single person is a manageable entity, whom you can either make friends with or leave alone. But half of a married couple is not exactly a whole human being: if the marriage is successful it is something a little more than that; if unsuccessful, a little less. In either case, a fresh complication is added to the already intricate business of friendship: as Clem had once remarked, you might as well try to dance a tarantella with a Siamese twin.

Left wing...Right wing...it's so limited; why doesn't it ever occur to any of them that what one is really longing for is the wishbone?

Als ze verder slenteren, zegt Dirk verontschuldigend tegen Michiel: 'Het heeft immers geen zin erover te praten.' 'Nee,' zegt Michiel, 'het heeft geen zin. Eén ding heeft maar zin.' 'Wat dan?' 'Nooit meer in een oorlog vechten, alleen nog tegen oorlog.' 'Zo is het,' zegt Dirk.

God is very present when two or three get together in his name. I've learned that God is pleased to give us the desires of our hearts, if at times he must change our hearts first.

Steeds zie ik ons samen opdoemen in mijn geest en weer verdwijnen. Als jongens, als jongemannen en op latere leeftijd. We kijken allebei star voor ons uit. Het lijkt wel of we met elkaar vergroeid zijn, zo dicht lopen we tegen elkaar. Ik weet niet of we op weg zijn ergens naar toe of dat het zomaar een dwalen is. Er is geen angst want ik weet dat we elkaar niet kwijt kunnen raken.

Deputy Breaux didn't so much as raise an eyebrow—just leaned over and grabbed Celia's shoulders and helped Carter haul her out. You had to love a man who really understood his town and his people.

Orleans." Silently, we all took a seat at the

And the key to locking in lasting participation down the line, he says, is to emphasize chores as a group effort by using the word "we"—"We need to get this done" or "Let's clean up the living room.

The identification with the common lot which is the essential idea of Democracy becomes the source and expression of social ethics. It is as though we thirsted to drink at the great wells of human experience, because we knew that a daintier or less potent draught would not carry us to the end of the journey, going forward as we must in the heat and jostle of the crowd.

This dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

3 or 4 families in a Country Village is the very thing to work on.

Chicago's neighborhoods have always been this city's greatest strength.

I realized then that the generations may change but the strength of our nation remains solid.

We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables — the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers — to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences.

You don't have to be anti-man to be pro-woman.

each side of the saddle, all in wickerwork but

Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.