Grafted Quotes
23 quotes by 22 authors
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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
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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
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You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned.
— Michael Pollan
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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
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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
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Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
— William Allen White
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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
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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
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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
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I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me
— Frank Herbert
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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
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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
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We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.
— Ellen Goodman
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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
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The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
— George Santayana
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Grafted Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 23 Grafted Quotes as follows: