J.G. Holland Quotes

We're a shifty, sliding population. ... What we refer to as 'home' may be a place we haven't seen in years; a place where there's no one left who knows our name.

Almost any dog thinks almost any human is the Great Spirit, the Primal Creator, and the Universal Force Behind the Sun and Tides. What human can resist?

Pandit Pran Nath has given much of his later life to America and Europe and has influenced many of our younger composers.

It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.

I don't have weird talents I'm just a weird person! And do impersonations.

It's not our art, but our heart that's on display.

I've never met an artist whose spirit didn't want to fly.

I've come out of seeing death and chosen to focus on the life that's sprouting everywhere, like flowers. And I want to help feed the flowers.

I endeavor to trigger positive, empowering, life-giving emotion - I believe art is that powerful.

I notice that most of the men who tease me about my hair, don't have any.

I love playing someone who just skates by and does anything she wants.

I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

I've never written a play before, and I'll never write one again. You can quote me.

I've often played very strong, flashy, kind of inadvertently mean women. I am not that way in my real life.

It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do.

I've always had a hunger for realizing myself through my career.

Where would anyone in publicity be if they allowed sensitivity, restraint, breeding or good taste to stand in their way?

The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invade the field of each other's liberty.

He never said it would be easy, He just said He'd go with me.

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts it in our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves.

The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.

Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.

Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.

Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.

Life always take on the character of its motive.

No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.

There are no twin souls in God's universe.

There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.

There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.

It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny.

We work and that is godlike.

It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.

It is the life in literature that acts upon life.

Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer.

Immortality--twin sister of Eternity.

All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness.

Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.

Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.

if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.

Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.

A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.

God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.

If we will measure other people's corn in our own bushel, let us first take it to the Divine standard, and have it sealed.

We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.

He that cannot paint must grind the colors.

Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.

The moment we recognize God as supreme in power and infinitely good and loving toward all His intelligent creatures, that moment we admit the doctrine of universal and special providence.

If you want learning, you must work for it.