Famous quotes containing the words children, general, hospital, current and/or characters:
“We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children’s children who may perchance be really free.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.”
—Sun Tzu (6th–5th century B.C.)
“For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.”
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)
“Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“There are as many characters in men
As there are shapes in nature.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)