Words matter. These are the best Quaker Quotes from famous people such as Ezra Pound, Pete Holmes, Edward Rutherfurd, Harriet Tubman, James Meade, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
When I was in junior high, I went to a really hippy dippy Quaker school where we called our teachers by their first names and stuff.
I descend from both Philadelphia Quakers and Carolina colonists whose families were separated by the Revolutionary War. That helped give me insight into the agony of Patriots who, until the British government denied their claims, had always, like Ben Franklin himself, thought of themselves as free-born Englishmen.
Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents had been wardens of the Quaker Hostel there and where she had gone back as secretary to Gilbert Murray.
My dad was Quaker and a businessman.
Our Quakers love us. we’re big with the Quakers. It’s all about cleanliness.
Pepsi is the second-most-recognized beverage brand in the world after Coke, and eighteen of PepsiCo’s other brands, which include Tropicana, Gatorade, and Quaker Oats, are billion-dollar businesses in their own right.
The kids go to a Quaker school. Their father and I believe a lot in community, social responsibility, making sure you give to people less fortunate than you.
My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.
Yes, the small village that we live in, in Virginia, is a very interesting place, in terms of its Civil War history, because it was a town that was founded by Quakers in 1733.
Look at the Quakers – they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in.
My parents were Quaker, and they were part of that old self-improving working class.
One of the tenets in Quaker meditation is that you ‘go inside to greet the light.’ I am interested in this light that’s inside greeting the light that’s outside.
I’m teaming up with Quaker and PLAY 60 to encourage kids to eat right, stay active and do something outside for at least 60 minutes a day.
On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life.
Quakers are terrific.
One way of paying tribute to my parents was ‘bearing witness’ as the Quakers do – writing down everything that was happening instead of turning my back on it and pretending that it was all great.
The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away one’s worldly goods.
I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.
In the context of Quaker worship, it is perfectly appropriate for any person in the congregation to speak a timely word from the Lord.
The Quakers don’t believe in music or art; they think it’s a vanity.
