Bear True Faith

Famous quotes containing the words bear, true and/or faith:

“Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“Children ... seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.”
—Shirley Hazzard (b. 1931)

“A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)