Quotes about Peace
I never hold a grudge.
- Billy Graham
The beautiful uncut hair of graves.
- Walt Whitman
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
- George Bernard Shaw
The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
- George Bernard Shaw
Heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation
- George Bernard Shaw
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
- George Bernard Shaw
No, really: I can't fight, I never could. I can't bring myself to dislike anyone enough.
- George Bernard Shaw
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself
- George Bernard Shaw
Contented speckled hens, industriously scratching for the rarely-found corn, may sometimes do more for a sick heart than a grove of nightingales; there is something irresistibly calming in the unsentimental cheeriness of top-knotted pullets, unpetted sheep-dogs, and patient cart-horses enjoying a drink of muddy water.
- George Eliot
Ah, I often think it's wi' th' old folks as it is wi' the babbies, said Mrs. Poyser; they're satisfied wi' looking, no matter what they're looking at. It's God A'mighty's way o' quietening 'em, I reckon, afore they go to sleep.
- George Eliot
These things have not changed. The sunlight and shadows bring their old beauty and waken the old heart-strains at morning, noon, and eventide; the little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty; and men still yearn for the reign of peace and righteousness
- George Eliot
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.