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To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
When I made '101 Reykjavik,' people talked about 'Almodovar on ice.' When I made 'The Sea,' people referenced Bergman.
— Baltasar Kormakur
Just her luck to be abducted by kidnappers who could think.
— Stephanie Laurens
The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
What instruction the baby brings to the mother!
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Life is as inexorable as the sea.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Life is a highway. I want to ride it all night long
— Tom Cochrane
The bee himself did not evade the schoolboy more than she evaded me, and even at this day I still stand somewhat bewildered, like the boy.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The first wild-flower of the year is like land after sea.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The Past is what it was and did what its done....
— Isaiah Wallowingbull
All ... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Loving is more important than living; without love, life has no meaning.
— Debasish Mridha
That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
There is a noble and a base side to every history.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be needed.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
She had so little control over her own life. Yet she took control, out of thin air for herself, when she could. I
— Padma Lakshmi
A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
— Billy Graham
Noble discontent is the path to heaven.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson