Creatures Quotes

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All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his… — Unknown Author
The sun does not shine for a few trees, and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. The lonely pine on the mountain-top waves its… — Henry Ward Beecher
Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All things are linked with one another, and this oneness is sacred; there is nothing that is not interconnected with everything else. For things are… — Marcus Aurelius
I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature… — Georg Cantor
Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of… — William Shakespeare
Bearing in his right paw the shovel that digs to the truth beneath appearances, cut the roots of useless attachments, and flings damp sand on… — Gary Snyder
We need to return to learning about the land by being on the land, or better, by being in the thick of it. That is… — Gary Paul Nabhan
Every creatures stalks some other, and catches it, and is caught. — Mignon McLaughlin
There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope. — Joseph Conrad
Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour; and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given themâ€”in sky, sea, flowers, and living creatures. — John Ruskin
A Church worshipping as a Creature of the Word doesn't show up to perform or be entertained; she comes desperate and needy, thirsty for grace,… — Matt Chandler
Our emotional life maps our incompleteness: A creature without any needs would never have reasons for fear, or grief, or hope, or anger. — Martha C. Nussbaum
The thing about animals that speaks to me so much is that my passion for the animals and against animal abuse is based on the… — Sam Simon
For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom. — William Shakespeare
The state is a means to an end. Its end lies in the preservation and advancement of a community of physically and psychically homogenous creatures. — Adolf Hitler
The only creature less fashionable in academia than the stereotypical 'dead white male,' is the dead white male on horseback. — David Hackett Fischer
Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and munch contentedly until… — Frank Herbert
Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life… — Phillips Brooks
I recall this passage as the hour of its first fully coming over me that she was a beautiful liberal creature. I had seen her… — Henry James

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