Gathered Quotes

314 Gathered quotes by 268 unique authors

A moment of grace. There rose up within me a profound sense of being loved. I felt "gathered together" and encircled by a Presence completely… — Sue Monk Kidd
The other mammoths were as protective of the dying as they were of newborns, and they gathered around tying to make the fallen one get… — Jean M. Auel
I was eventually to become one person, gathered up maybe, during a pause, at a comma. — Lyn Hejinian
This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The continuity of life is never broken; the river flows onward and is lost to our sight, but under its new horizon it carries the… — John Greenleaf Whittier
My mother, she killed me, My father, he ate me, My sister Marlene, Gathered all my bones, Tied them in a silken scarf, Laid them… — Jacob Grimm
Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss. The stone, that token of preposterous time, bounced five yards… — William Golding
He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he… — Leo Tolstoy
On the trees are only a few gnarled apples that the pickers have rejected. They look like the knuckles of Doctor Reefy's hands. One nibbles… — Sherwood Anderson
By this time, half the people in High Norland were gathered in Royal Square to stare at the castle. They all watched with disbelief as… — Diana Wynne Jones
A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind… — James Joyce
She adored all beautiful things in their every curve and fragrance, so that they became part of her. Day by day, she gathered beauty; had… — James M. Barrie
As I look out at all of you gathered here, I want to say that I don't see a room full of Parisians in top… — Brian Selznick
Phillip looked to Eloise. "Perhaps introductions are in order?" "Oh," Eloise said, gulping. "Yes, of course. These are my brothers." "I'd gathered," he said, his… — Julia Quinn
What some now call 'emerging Christianity' or 'the emerging church' is not something you join, establish, or invent. You just name it and then you… — Richard Rohr
He bent down to her; their mouths met again, and the shock of sensation was so strong, so overpowering, that she shut her eyes against… — Cassandra Clare
Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shepherd, did you, Jane? — Charlotte Bronte
There were days, rainy gray days, when the streets of Brooklyn were worthy of a photograph, every window the lens of a Leica, the view… — Patti Smith
He was so much in love with me that I could have asked him for the moon and stars, and he would have gathered them… — Carolyn Meyer
Very quickly, very suddenly, words fell through my mind. They landed on the floor of my thoughts, and in there, down there, I started to… — Markus Zusak
He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet… — Elizabeth Gaskell
[Piper] rushed to get dressed. By the time she got up on deck, the others had already gathered—all hastily dressed except for Coach Hedge, who… — Rick Riordan
Wait." "Stop?" I bit my lip and nodded. "Stop everything, or just go no further?" "Just...just no further." "Done." He gathered me into his arms… — Tammara Webber

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