Famous quotes containing the words harriet beecher and/or beecher:
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)
“It is to be lamented that the principle of national has had very little nourishment in our country, and, instead, has given place to sectional or state partialities. What more promising method for remedying this defect than by uniting American women of every state and every section in a common effort for our whole country.”
—Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)