Home / Quotes / Quote by Anne Askew

Quote by Anne Askew

“God has given me the bread of adversity and the water of trouble.”

Author

Anne Askew (1521-1546) was an English poet of the Renaissance period. Her works primarily focused on religious themes, reflecting her strong religious beliefs and criticism of social injustices. more

“Twas in heaven pronounced - it was muttered in hell, / And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell; / On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, / And the depth of the ocean its presence confessed. / Yet in shade let it rest, like a delicate flower, / Ah, breathe on it softly, it dies in an hour.”

Earth Dies Heaven Sound Hours Hell Flower Ocean Depth Caught Breathe Shade Delicate Verses Echoes Delicate Flower

Author:Catherine Maria Fanshawe

“The Vietnam war will not be over until it ends for everyone. Over four hundred thousand U.S. veterans are still recovering from wounds inflicted on their bodies and their spirit. Sixty-three million souls in Vietnam are still suffering from their 'victory.”

Stills War Soul Ends Body Spirit Suffering Three Millions Four Victory Thousand Hundred Wounds Vietnam Sixty Veteran Vietnam War Recovering

Book:When Heaven & Earth Change Places

Source: When Heaven & Earth Change Places

“War has crossed out the day and replaced it with horror, and now horrors are unfolding instead of days.”

War Horror Replaced Unfolding

Book:Le journal de Zlata

Source: Le journal de Zlata

“Boredom!!! Shooting!!! Shelling!!! People being killed!!! Despair!!! Hunger!!! Misery!!! Fear!!! That's my life! The life of an innocent eleven-year-old schoolgirl!! A schoolgirl without a school, without the fun and excitement of school. A child without games, without friends, without the sun, without birds, without nature, without fruit, without chocolate or sweets, with just a little powdered milk. In short, a child without a childhood.”

Source: Le journal de Zlata

“Wars results in immediate deaths and destruction, but the environmental consequences can last hundreds, often thousands of years. And it is not just war itself that undermines our life support system, but also the research and development, military exercises and general preparations for battle that are carried out on a daily basis in most parts of the world. The majority of this pre-war activity takes place without the benefit of civilian scrutiny and therefore we are unaware of some of what is being done to our environment in the name of 'security.”

Source: Planet Earth: The Latest Weapon of War

“wit, wit! - I look upon it always as a draught of air; it cools indeed, but one gets a stiff neck from it.”

Looks Air Wit Look Up Necks Draught Stiff Neck

Author:Katharina Elisabeth Goethe

“Inflation has ... become the cruelest tax, destroying the value of the dollar and adding new costs to every purchase.”

Values Cost Taxes Dollars Destroying Inflation

Author:Ella T. Grasso

“You better change your ways / And get really wild. / I want to tell you something / I wouldn't tell you no lie. / Wild women are the only kind / That really get by, / 'Cause Wild Women don't worry / Wild Women don't get the blues.”

Way Want Kind Lying Causes Women Worry Get Real Wild Women

Author:Ida Cox

“The progress of women's rights in our culture, unlike other types of 'progress,' has always been strangely reversible.”

Culture Rights Progress Type Womens Rights

Author:Ann Douglas

“Powerful men often succeed through the help of their wives. Powerful women only succeed in spite of their husbands.”

Men Helping Powerful Wife Succeed Husband Spite Powerful Women Powerful Man

Author:Lynda Lee-Potter

Quote by Anne Askew

Author

You May Also Like