Anna Howard Shaw Professions : Physician Born : February 14, 1847 Died : July 2, 1919 Browse All Authors Top 29 quotes by Anna Howard Shaw The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on. Anna Howard Shaw dream men moving If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought upunder monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty. Anna Howard Shaw freedom government school I spoke at a woman's club in Philadelphia yesterday and a young lady said to me afterwards, "Well, that sounds very nice, but don't you think it is better to be the power behind the throne?" I answered that I had not had much experience with thrones, but a woman who has been on a throne, and who is now behind it, seems to prefer to be on the throne. Anna Howard Shaw nice yesterday thinking I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness, good faith, good friends and all the work I can possibly do. I think God's greatest blessing to the human race was when He sent man forth into the world to earn his bread by the sweat of his face. I believe in toil, in the dignity of labor, but I also believe in adequate compensation for that toil. Anna Howard Shaw good-friend men believe On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life. Anna Howard Shaw pioneers hours two-sides Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation. Anna Howard Shaw my-favorite form work If we ever get to the polls once, you will never get us home. Anna Howard Shaw will never you home Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not. Anna Howard Shaw true things now government Before I had crossed the threshold of my church I was made to realize that I was shepherd of a divided flock. Anna Howard Shaw shepherd realize church made Similar Authors Abram Hoffer physician Buwei Yang Chao physician Broda Otto Barnes physician Brian Day physician Anna Komnene physician Axel Munthe physician All Authors