Clings Quotes

117 Clings quotes by 100 unique authors

When a baby first looks at you...when it laughs that deep, unselfconscious gurgle; or when it cries and you pick it up and it clings… — Marilyn French
But if we know that the people of God are first a fellowship of sinners, we are freed to hear the unconditional call of God's… — Richard J. Foster
Real beauty in the arts is eternal and would be accepted at all periods; but it wears the dress of its century: something of that… — Eugene Delacroix
You all know that certain things are necessary to make a religion. First of all, there is the book. The power of the book is… — Swami Vivekananda
Outside, you don't hear a single bird, and a deathly, oppressive silence hangs over the house and clings to me as if it were going… — Anne Frank
Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow. — Horace
Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them. — Friedrich Nietzsche
... a man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the… — Albert Einstein
In the city one clings to nostalgic and unreal signs of community, takes forced refuge in codes, badges and coteries; the city's life, of surfaces… — Jonathan Raban
Some people ask me whether I'm a 'mama's girl' or a 'papa's girl.' I'm nobody's girl. My brother clings to our parents; I'm the one… — Hayden Panettiere
Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from it. So he… — Maximus the Confessor
Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body. — Georg Buchner
Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings. — Bob Dylan
England was killed by an idea: the idea that the weak, indolent and profligate must be supported by the strong, industrious, and frugal – to… — Dan Smoot
Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then — James Russell Lowell
A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient… — Samuel Johnson
No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a culture holds that… — Michael Novak
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European… — Anthony Burgess
Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a… — Ramakrishna
The past is our only real possession in life. It is the one piece of property of which time cannot deprive us; it is our… — Grace King
Enlightenment just means that you don't have a structural self. It means you've flipped through the gradated realities. Nothing binds, nothing clings to you. You're… — Frederick Lenz
... I gave as an offering my all to Him Who had won me and saved me, my property, my fame, my health, my very… — Gregory of Nazianzus
Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite… — William Hazlitt
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. — Gustave Flaubert

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