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Quotes About Peace

I've learned that home isn't a place, it's a feeling.
~ Cecelia Ahern
The island cried out to me. I longed to feast my senses on its light and air, and restore my spirit with its peace. If I answered its call, soon enough I would live again in the familiar rhythms of its seasons—the wincing winters and dappled summers, its shy, reluctant springtide and gleaming, bronzed leaf fall.
~ Geraldine Brooks
With rest you might find the world a small bit brighter.
~ Geraldine Brooks
You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.
~ Geraldine Ferraro
We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.
~ Geraldine Ferraro
And I have asked to beWhere no storms come,Where the green swell is in the havens dumb,And out of the swing of the sea.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
And when Peace here does house He comes with work to do, he does not come to coo, He comes to brood and sit.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
He lived on; these weeds and waters, these walls are what He haunted who of all men most sways my spirits to peace;
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
And I have asked to be Where no storms come
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
I have asked to be Where no storms come
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
O, lieve, lieve mensen, ik houd van u, en ik omhels u allen hartstochtelijk, ondanks de geduchte afstand. Laten we elkaar niet haten, maar, integendeel, elkaar liefhebben, gezamenlijk op de Dood wachten, en het ons in de tussentijd aan niets laten ontbreken.
~ Gerard Reve
We challenge the culture of violence when we ourselves act in the certainty that violence is no longer acceptable, that it's tired and outdated no matter how many cling to it in the stubborn belief that it still works and that it's still valid.
~ Gerard Vanderhaar
The Silent majority is silent, and that is best for everybody.
~ Gerhard Kocher
Si ha de haber paz, la paz tendrá que ser activa, los motivos de la lucha han de mantenerse vivos para darle empleo a la ambición del hombre, a su ingenio, a su espíritu inestable.
~ Germán Arciniegas
A garden is the best alternative therapy
~ Germaine Greer
He who conquers his anger has conquered an enemy
~ German proverb
Now the LORD I AM, Yahweh, The one true God, who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit, The LORD bless you and keep you; The LORD make his face to shine upon you, And be gracious unto you. The LORD lift up his countenance upon you, And give you peace, now and always. I conclude with an invitation: "And let God's people reply . . . " Then they answer heartily, "Blessed be the LORD I AM, who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.
~ Gerrit Dawson
May the Lord God bless you and keep you from the torment of fear and anxiety. May He cause His face to shine upon you with power, love and a sound mind and give you grace to cast out fear through perfect love. May He lift up His countenance upon you with freedom as you tell Him every detail of your need in earnest, thankful prayer, and give you the peace that surpasses all understanding, as He keeps your heart and mind safe through Jesus Christ.[4]
~ Gerrit Dawson
TRUE, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.
~ Gerrit Smith
It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary.
~ Gerrit Smith
Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.
~ Gerry Adams
Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa.
~ Gerry Adams
Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
~ Gerry Adams
But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that.
~ Gerry Adams