Famous quotes containing the word overcome:
“My tendency to nervousness in my younger days, in view of the fact of a number of near relatives on both my father’s and mother’s side of the house having become insane, gave some serious uneasiness. I made up my mind to overcome it.... In the cross-examination of witnesses before a crowded court-house ... I soon found I could control myself even in the worst of testing cases. Finally, in battle.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“We shall overcome, we shall overcome,
We shall overcome some day.
Oh, deep in my heart I do believe
We shall overcome some day.”
—Anonymous.
According to Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (16th ed., 1992)
“Can such things be
And overcome us like a summer’s cloud,
Without our special wonder?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)