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Down Quotes by Wendell Berry
- The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the soil is a…
- During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though still…
- When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and…
- The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground,…
- After a while, though the grief did not go away from us, it grew quiet. What had seemed a storm wailing through the entire darkness…
- If love could force my own thoughts over the edge of the world and out of time, then could I not see how even divine…
- Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we cannot…
- When you are old you can look back and see yourself when you are young. It is almost like looking down from heaven. And you…
- We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down.…
- Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like…
More Down Quotes
- Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down. — J. J. Abrams
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's… — Lance Armstrong
- My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz
- This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me… — Joe Arpaio
- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell
- I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's… — Rodney Atkins
- I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods… — Rowan Atkinson
- I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when… — Margaret Atwood
- The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can… — Chinua Achebe