Quotes About Quaker

By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.

My dad was Quaker and a businessman.

As a Quaker, I aspire to be a pacifist.

One of the tenets in Quaker meditation is that you 'go inside to greet the light.' I am interested in this light that's inside greeting the light that's outside.

My aunt was Frances Hodges, who in the Fifties was the editor of 'Seventeen' and later one of the creators of 'Mademoiselle.' She was my Auntie Mame; she loved culture. She was a Quaker, but she became a milliner against all Quaker logic - they feel that fashion and art are vanities - because she loved fashion.

However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.

My parents were Quaker, and they were part of that old self-improving working class.

I'm not a good Quaker, really I'm not, but it's a lovely thing to aspire to.

It's really interesting because I'm a Quaker... so it's been radical to me to be hired by the Department of Defense under contract.

My life had a tendency to spread, get flabby, to scroll and festoon like the frame of a baroque mirror, which came from following the line of least resistance. I wanted my death, by contrast, to be neat and simple, understated, even a little severe, like a Quaker church or the basic black dress with a single strand of pearls...

The simple fact of the matter is that the Home Secretary has asked us to investigate what our Quaker friend chooses to call—for some strange reason of his own—"child prostitution". And whatever our personal feelings, it certainly won't damage our prospects of promotion if we come up with the result he desires.

It wasn't an unusual thing for her to keep her thoughts to herself. She had that Quaker habit. Quiet contemplation, she call[ed] it. I got to like it myself, listening to the world without making any noise to add to it.

My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.

The mere words "Socialism" and "Communism" draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, "Nature Cure" quack, pacifist, and feminist in England. . . . The food-crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in hopes of adding five years on to the life of his carcase; that is, a person out of touch with common humanity.

I wasn't really aware they were a religious organization for quite some time. But my grandparents were very devout and ran a Quaker meetinghouse and were missionaries at one point.

the Nurses had raised a Quaker orphan;

The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away one's worldly goods.

My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.

In the context of Quaker worship, it is perfectly appropriate for any person in the congregation to speak a timely word from the Lord.

It was in such a context that Trotsky scorned "papist-Quaker babble about the sanctity of human life," and Lenin

In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.

Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. I believe what the old Quaker said, 'Trust in the Lord, but keep your powder dry.

We must put an end once and for all,' said Trotsky, 'to the Papist-Quaker babble about the sanctity of human life.