Jane Addams Quotes

I have become convinced that everything that is classy doesn't go away.

The biblical world view with respect to these issues is that we have a responsibility to manage and cultivate, harvest the natural resources that we've been blessed with to truly bless our fellow mankind.

Definitely, study is absolutely necessary in all forms - it's just like any talent that's born within somebody. It's just like a good pair of shoes when you put a shine on it, you know? Like, schooling brings out the polish of any talent. It happens anywhere in the world.

Wine gets better with time. So does art.

Sometimes, ideas are like good wine in that they just need time.

The imagination is an innate gift, but it needs refinement and cultivation; this is what the humanities provide.

Talent is important, but how one develops and nurtures it is even more so.

You've got to chop back the performance like a rose bush. That's when it's beautiful.

I don't like tattoos because tattoos are forever.

The furnace of affliction produces refinement in states as well as individuals. And the new Governments we are assuming in every part will require a purification from our vices, and an augmentation of our virtues, or there will be no blessings.

It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond.

Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.

The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway cultivation that leads to ornamentation.

Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.

History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook.

I had set about trying to make myself more polished than a country boy would be.

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation.

God bless us, every one!