Wednesday, November 20, 2024 Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.

Helen Keller

« All quotes from this author
 

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
--
Address to the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf at Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (8 July 1896), quoted in supplement to The Story of My Life

 
Helen Keller

» Helen Keller - all quotes »



Tags: Helen Keller Quotes, Authors starting by K


Similar quotes

 

Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.

 
Edmund Burke
 

We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of quadrupeds. There can be but one explanation of this fact. We are passing from the animal into a higher form, and the drama of this planet is in its second act.

 
William Winwood Reade
 

Women, once sex gets out in the open, they become monsters. You're a creep if you f**k them and a creep if you don't.

 
John Updike
 

The one impulse in man which cannot be erased is his impulse toward freedom, his impulse toward sanity, toward higher levels of attainment in all of his endeavors.

 
L. Ron Hubbard
 

Faith feels itself secure neither with universal consent, nor with tradition, nor with authority. It seeks support of its enemy, reason.

 
Miguel de Unamuno
© 2009–2013Quotes Privacy Policy | Contact