My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trustingly down, he would gently kick the seat from under me - and laugh.


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I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and i...
ABBEY LINCOLN
I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes...
ABBEY LINCOLN
I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we did...
ABBEY LINCOLN
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, sh...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
[The circus also brings entertainment from the suburbs into the city.] A circus is a family event. I...
ALAN LINCOLN
You have to see it to believe some of these trapeze acts they do. There's a school in China that tra...
ALAN LINCOLN
This circus is an icon in the African-American community. Because it is multicultural, all people ca...
ALAN LINCOLN
The purpose of entertainment is to get away from the mundane daily grind that affects all of us. We ...
ALAN LINCOLN
I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast a...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bon...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid i...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no nece...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
A rose without thorns is like love without heartbreak; it doesn't make sense.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I ca...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live t...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
There's nothing to scream about because in America we're all one blanket, everybody feels the same w...
ABBEY LINCOLN
There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter...
ABBEY LINCOLN
It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellin...
ABBEY LINCOLN
I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the tr...
ABBEY LINCOLN
I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't ...
ABBEY LINCOLN
I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.
ABBEY LINCOLN
But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody want...
ABBEY LINCOLN
Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay dow...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be encouraged.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words y...
LINCOLN CHILD
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The old general rule was that educated people did not perform manual labor. They managed to e...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree i...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Everybody likes a compliment.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN