Gathered Quotes
314 Gathered quotes by 268 unique authors
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Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one person to another, about all…
— George H. W. Bush
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Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Under the bright sun, many of us are gathered together with different languages, different styles of dress, even different faiths. However, all of us are…
— Dalai Lama
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Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the…
— Freya Stark
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In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as a skeleton grasping…
— Annie Besant
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On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city has gathered the…
— Raymond Williams
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The fact that you are here tonight gathered together with us testifies to the fact you understand the need for this organization and the need…
— Walter Cronkite
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O my child, bethink you that just as the bee, having gathered heaven's dew and earth's sweetest juices from amid the flowers, carries it to…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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All the honey that can be gathered from the flowers of this world has less sweetness than the vinegar and gall of Jesus Christ our…
— Ignatius Loyola
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When the bee has gathered the dew of heaven and the earth's sweetest nectar from the flowers, it turns it into honey, then hastens to…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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But no temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...as if into this one mountain…
— John Muir
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A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building the Panama Canal;…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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I kept quiet, but the knowledge gathered like a storm. I could see the future: My father wasn't coming back. And this one fact seemed…
— Karen Thompson Walker
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If you hear a good idea, capture it; write it down. Don't trust your memory. Then on a cold wintry evening, go back through your…
— Jim Rohn
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Every light has a point where it is brightest and a point toward which it wanders to lose itself completely. It must be intercepted to…
— Josef von Sternberg
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Entrance into the Old Ways begins with the pricking of a finger with a rose thorn, which produces a drop of blood. This opens the…
— Raven Grimassi
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All the fabulous and fearless writers gathered here, whether they are living in Manila, the US, or elsewhere in the ever-growing Philippine diaspora, have a…
— Jessica Hagedorn
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I've always admired the tradition of storytellers who sat in the public market and told their stories to gathered crowds. They'd start with a single…
— Nicolas Roeg
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When you have arrived at your country house and have saluted your household, you should make the rounds of the farm the same day, if…
— Cato the Elder
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Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole cause of crime.…
— Clarence Darrow
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
— Bette Davis
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Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
— Theodore Dreiser
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Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies…
— George Eliot
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Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
— Desiderius Erasmus
Who Wrote These Gathered Quotes
268 authors contributed a total of 314 Gathered Quotes, led by these top contributors: