#essence

The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses. ↗

— John Fischer

#become #body #chance #child #each

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. ↗

— Felix Mendelssohn

#essence #unity #variety

Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life. ↗

— Kim Novak

#essence #history #just #life #like

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another. ↗

— Anne Rice

#been #christian #essence #evangelists #form

The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#circumstances #come #essence #ethnicity #great

When my twin grandchildren, Linda and Lyeke, were born two years ago, it changed me. I felt it was the essence of what life is about, and I cried all day. When my son Pierre, their father, was born I didn't cry like that. ↗

— Andre Rieu

#ago #all day #born #changed #cried

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently. ↗

— Tony Robbins

#consistent #consistently #control #direct #essence

The way we're going about things and what we want to do, we feel it has to be a really pure essence of music. That's where you get the most out of it. ↗

— Chris Robinson

#essence #feel #get #going #most

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from." ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#balance #between #delicate #delicate balance #essence

Integrity is the essence of everything successful. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#everything #integrity #successful