Home / Quotes / Quote by Frank Underhill

Quote by Frank Underhill

“A nation is a body of people who have done great things together in the past and hope to do great things together in the future.”

Quote by Frank Underhill

Author

Frank Underhill

Frank Underhill was an influential journalist known for his in-depth investigative reporting and keen insight into social issues. Born on November 26, 1889, and passing away on September 16, 1971, Underhill's career was marked by his exposure of injustice and corruption. His reporting had a profound impact on promoting social change. more

You May Also Like

“A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow.”

Nature Cities Tree Snow Broads Palms Avenues Peppers

Book:Inventing the Dream: California Through the Progressive Era

Source: Inventing the Dream: California Through the Progressive Era

“The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes as big as King Kong and so on. And so there can be a real riot out there, or it can be so refined.”

Real Sometimes Bigs Beautiful Emotion Sweet Kings Ugly Riot Refined Percussion King Kong

Author:Evelyn Glennie

“Weekdays, New York City's financial district bustles with activity. Its streets are rivers of rushing humanity, its air is thick with the sounds of traffic.”

Humanity Sound Cities Air Streets New York Activity Rivers Financial New York City Thick Traffic Rushing Bustle Weekdays

Author:Jennifer Dunning

“My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of playing is in my blood. It's a very powerful instrument, but it can also be soothing, like velvet. It's a real challenge for composers.”

Real Challenges Powerful Blood Style Band Instruments My Favorite Composer Scotland Very Powerful Scottish Soothing Velvet Prominent Snares

Author:Evelyn Glennie

“God primes the pump of obligation.”

Obligation Pumps

Author:Aloysius Martinich

“I have spent the last five months obsessively working on Outlaw.”

Obsession Outlaw

Author:Nick Love

“A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos.”

Thinking Has Beens Pieces Composer Collaborating Percussion

Author:Evelyn Glennie

“Whether the proposed constitution is approved or rejected . . . it is a process and a text largely crafted and imposed by U.S. occupation authorities and their Iraqi dependents, and thus lacking in legal or political legitimacy.”

Political Process Authority Constitution Occupation Rejected Lacking Approved Legitimacy

Author:Phyllis Bennis

“I beg you, put an end to the occupation. I beg the Italian government and the Italian people to put pressure on the government to pull out.”

People Ends Government Pressure Occupation Italian

Author:Giuliana Sgrena

“When occupations come to us we must accept them; when things come to us we must understand them from the ground up.”

Accepting Occupation

Author:Lu Yen-hsun