Katharine Lee Bates Quotes

O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain.

Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.

Adversity is the true school of the mind.

It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.

America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shinning sea!

America! America! God shed His grace on thee.

The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops.

Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.