To derive joy from simple things; to derive joy from…

Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

— Anonymous

Life is beautiful. It's about giving. It's about family.

— Walt Disney

As a living, breathing person, you must love things that derive from nature.

— Vince Staples

The source from which existing things derive their existence is also that to which they return at their destruction.

— Anaximander

We derive a lot of the reality of ourselves through interactions with others.

— Joyce Johnson

It's no surprise that Mitt Romney bent himself into a pretzel to disavow the portions of Obamacare that derive from his own reform in…

— Timothy Noah

I do have hobbies - I garden and bike, for example - but there's nothing in the world that gives me even a fraction…

— Chris Bohjalian

“The value of negative things derives, must derive, from something positive, something they make possible.”

— Thomas Dubay

“Men derive their worth from what they do, while women derive their worth from who they are.1”

— Rick Johnson

Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of…

— Charles Hodge

All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from…

— Patrick Stump

The powers of government exercised locally derive from a federal law authorizing government by consent in local affairs only, unless those affairs are otherwise…

— Dick Thornburgh

God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also…

— Saint Ambrose

Whence, then, did the cathedral derive its power? Clearly here: It took back the family into the confidences of religion. It taught man and…

— Jenkin Lloyd Jones

Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.

— Andrew Davies