Burrs Quotes
13 quotes by 12 authors
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I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.
— William Shakespeare
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Whether we know it or not, we transmit the presence of everyone we have ever known, as though by being in each other's presence we…
— Natalie Goldberg
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A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while…
— Ron Chernow
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The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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These bits of poetry that stick to her like burrs.
— Jenny Offill
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The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the outrageous, demented lives…
— Harlan Ellison
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I'm not against accents - my husband's from Lancashire and has a rural Lancs accent. We've just got back from Scotland yesterday, and I love…
— Penelope Keith
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You will be favorable to Burr, and so must fail, because the American reader cannot bear a surprise. He knows that this is the greatest…
— Gore Vidal
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The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness, and…
— William Shakespeare
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He looked blank. “He’s the one who’s been doing the magic against us?†“Duh,†I said. “Doona be ‘duh’ing me, lass,†he growled, his burr…
— Karen Marie Moning
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You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make…
— Louisa May Alcott
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As we walk our individual life journeys, we pick up resentments and hurts, which attach themselves to our souls like burrs clinging to a hiker's…
— Richard Paul Evans
Who Wrote These Burrs Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 13 Burrs Quotes as follows: