Grafted Quotes

23 quotes by 22 authors

Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house,… — Karl Barth
The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and… — Thomas Jefferson
You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned. — Michael Pollan
It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former… — Emma Goldman
A mediocre man copying nature will never produce a work of art, because he really looks without seeing, and though he may have noted each… — Auguste Rodin
Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man. — William Allen White
A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally… — Robert Fortune
Sometimes I can be walking down the street, or riding a bus, and suddenly I see somebody who remind me of somebody I know back… — Caryl Phillips
Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead… — Russell Baker
I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me — Frank Herbert
The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the… — John Charles Polanyi
The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay, all of native… — Henry David Thoreau
We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives. — Ellen Goodman
No art can be grafted with success on another art. For though they all profess the same origin, and to proceed from the same stock,… — Joshua Reynolds
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. — George Santayana
Do you ever get the feeling like you already know the entire contents of the universe somewhere inside of your head, as if you were… — Reif Larsen
Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be… — Giacomo Casanova
For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of… — William H. Gass
Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through social… — Henri Bergson
Medicare is a monopoly: a central-planning bureaucracy grafted onto American health care. It exercises a stranglehold on the health care of all Americans over 65,… — Virginia Postrel

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