Logo
Quote by Abraham Lincoln
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower whe

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. – Abraham Lincoln

Other quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail. – Abraham Lincoln

Category:
Property
Author
Abraham Lincoln
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Life
category

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone. – Reba McEntire

Category:
Life

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead. – Lucille Ball

Category:
Life

The lie is a condition of life. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Category:
Life

The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919

Category:
Life

Random Quotes

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. – H. L. Mencken

Category:
great

You in the West have a problem. You are unsure when you are being lied to, when you are being tricked. We do not suffer from this; and unlike you, we have acquired the skill of reading between the lines. – Zdenek Urbanak

Category:
Ideology

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue. – Alfred North Whitehead

Category:
Future

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe. – William Irwin Thompson

Category:
Failure