Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
William Blake

Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.
John Boehner

Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.
Jim Gerlach

The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where their culture used to flourish, into a massive grave. This is why initiatives to revive Jewish culture in Poland is so important.
Marek Belka

The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.
Hugh Sidey

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Joseph Addison

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
Warren G. Bennis

These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.
Orhan Pamuk

To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.
Robert Jackson

True religious movements prosper and flourish under tribulation.
Sun Myung Moon

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.
Barbara Smith

Truth will flourish in fantasy, only to wither and die in what you are pleased to call reality.
Bernard Schubert

Virtue can only flourish among equals.
Mary Wollstonecraft

We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
Ibrahim Babangida

We must never forget that it is the private sector - not government - that is the engine of economic opportunity. Businesses, particularly small businesses, flourish and can provide good jobs when government acts as a productive partner.
Bill Richardson

We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves.
Timothy Radcliffe

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?
Leon Kass

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.
Lao Tzu

When schools flourish, all flourishes.
Martin Luther