Lincoln Ellsworth quote: "One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of the earth's surface after my father."

All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geom...
ELLSWORTH KELLY

The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.
ELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON

The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal.
ELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON

America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.
ELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON

No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for t...
ELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON

When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginnin...
ELLSWORTH KELLY

We already witnessed the effect of the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people from last yea...
BILL ELLSWORTH

We expect that it will be several days before we have more definitive information about the earthqua...
BILL ELLSWORTH

We have reports of motion being perceptible from way south of Los Angeles to way north of San Franci...
BILL ELLSWORTH

It's the first time we've been inside the earthquake machine.
BILL ELLSWORTH

It's the first time we've been inside the earthquake machine. We've looked at the fossil earthquakes...
BILL ELLSWORTH

Judge candidly what a wretched figure the American empire will exhibit in the eye of other nations, ...
OLIVER ELLSWORTH

That cake tasted good. But the cake in the garbage tasted better. It was the best cake I ever ate.
LORETTA ELLSWORTH

Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.
ELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON

I always felt that a painted edge between two colors was a depiction somehow.
ELLSWORTH KELLY

I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line.
ELLSWORTH KELLY

I'm not an Expressionist. I love to look at de Kooning, but I've got this kind of secret lif...
ELLSWORTH KELLY

Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.
ELLSWORTH KELLY

My forms are geometric, but they don't interact in a geometric sense. They're just forms tha...
ELLSWORTH KELLY

I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying...
ELLSWORTH KELLY

I'm constantly investigating nature - nature, meaning everything.
ELLSWORTH KELLY

Some persons never attain to the happy art of perspicuous expression, and it is equally true that so...
OLIVER ELLSWORTH

The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and nec...
OLIVER ELLSWORTH

The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the inn...
OLIVER ELLSWORTH

A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
OLIVER ELLSWORTH

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.
ELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON

Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded...
ELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.
ELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON

You look at pictures of Bonds when he was a Pirate, and look at him now, and it's so obvious he's be...
JEFF ELLSWORTH

As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a...
ELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON

I don't like mixed colors that much, like plum color or deep, deep colors that are hard to defin...
ELLSWORTH KELLY

In Paris in the late '40s, I started making my first reliefs. They are separate panels. I wanted...
ELLSWORTH KELLY

We have to hang things from the ceiling, hang masks and put up big columns that stand on the floor a...
JAIME ELLSWORTH

In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north.
ELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON

I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting - the forms and t...
ELLSWORTH KELLY

Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has pass...
ELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON

The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity.
ELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not ...
ELLSWORTH KELLY

Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are es...
ELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON

I don't see how this year's sophomores can beat the prom that we are putting on this year.
JAIME ELLSWORTH

We talked to some of our friends who are seniors and we talked about doing a masquerade for prom dur...
JAIME ELLSWORTH

I don't really like the Giants at all, and I hate Barry Bonds.
JEFF ELLSWORTH

In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inher...
ELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON

For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we ...
ELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON

According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origi...
ELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON

A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turk...
ELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON

Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals ...
ELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON

The evidence points to central Asia as man's original home, for the general movement of human mi...
ELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON

Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into m...
ELLSWORTH KELLY

I like silence.
ELLSWORTH KELLY

I just feel like I can live on. I hope I can reach 100. I think today if you just keep doing, keep w...
ELLSWORTH KELLY

Matisse draws what I call the essence of the plants. He leaves a shape open. He'll do a leaf and...
ELLSWORTH KELLY

My earliest drawing is a supposed Carracci. It wasn't very expensive, I guess, because they don&...
ELLSWORTH KELLY

I've always wanted... I wanted to give people joy.
ELLSWORTH KELLY

I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light.
ELLSWORTH KELLY

One of the first drawings I did in Paris - I wasn't thinking of doing drawings, but somehow or o...
ELLSWORTH KELLY

Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of ...
ELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON

All my work begins with drawings.
ELLSWORTH KELLY

I like to be able to get swift curves in the plant drawings that are usually drawn in five to ten mi...
ELLSWORTH KELLY

He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. -Lincoln.
LINCOLN

The advancement of the arts from year to year taxes our credulity, and seems to presage the arrival ...
HENRY L. ELLSWORTH

I am far frae my hame, an' i'm weary aften whiles, For the longed-for hame-bringing an' my Father'...
ERASTUS W. ELLSWORTH

I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not plea...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I shou...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The le...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by c...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy s...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, ca...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived ...
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'...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Some day I shall be President.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer th...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest r...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should neve...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only s...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my li...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, f...
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 ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive conce...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an i...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fo...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

When I see a friend play Hamlet or see an inspirational performance, I absolutely get excited by the...
ANDREW LINCOLN

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I h...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I di...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be bec...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that any...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I don't really have any regrets because if I choose not to do something there is usually a very ...
ANDREW LINCOLN

I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social a...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fai...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Property is the fruit of laborproperty is desirableis a positive good in the world. That some should...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption o...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me great...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

You have heard the story, havent you, about the man who was tarred and feathered and carried out of ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he the president is the representative of the people. H...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see th...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Senator Stephen Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who ha...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise hi...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main m...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the arm...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, ar...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know t...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocab...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race In the sweat of thy face ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

It is better, then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain itkeep it....
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

The most notable feature of a disturbance in your city last summer, was the hanging of some working ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I have very large ideas of the mineral wealth of our Nation. I believe it practically inexhaustible....
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth in their mili...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

He said that he felt like the boy that stumped his toe,it hurt too bad to laugh, and he was too big ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by inte...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Dear Madam,I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advan...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Dont interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safegu...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

To give the victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently ha...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I am glad to know that there is a system of labor where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I wou...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of hi...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Singular indeed that the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one amon...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

This extraordinary war in which we are engaged falls heavily upon all classes of people, but the mos...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Honor to the Soldier, and Sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his countrys cause. Honor also to the...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Whenever I hear any one, arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personal...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Those arguments that are made, that the inferior race are to be treated with as much allowance as th...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be reme...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

It is my ambition and desire to so administer the affairs of the government while I remain President...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goe...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

What has once happened, will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I think very much of the people, as an old friend said he thought of woman. He said when he lost his...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Has it popular sovereignty not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to m...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to preve...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Gentlemen, suppose all the property you were worth was in gold, and you had put it in the hands of B...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I know that the LORD is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer th...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about hi...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friendsthose whose hands ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those w...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many y...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I am superstitious. I have scarcely known a party, preceding an election, to call in help from the n...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if someb...
ABBEY LINCOLN

There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a qua...
ABBEY LINCOLN

I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and...
ABBEY LINCOLN

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

So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over...
LINCOLN STEFFENS

That what is true of business and politics is gloriously true of the professions, the arts and craft...
LINCOLN STEFFENS

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

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
LINCOLN STEFFENS

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
LINCOLN STEFFENS

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

One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of the earth's surface after my father.

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One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of the earth's surface after my father.

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