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Little Quotes by Wendell Berry
- There’s nothing under the ground that’s worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.
- Soil is not usually lost in slabs or heaps of magnificent tonnage. It is lost a little at a time over millions of acres by…
- We clasp the hands of those who go before us, and the hands of those who come after us; we enter the little circle of…
- All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have…
- The consumer wants food to be as cheap as possible. The producer wants it to be as expensive as possible. Both want it to involve…
- I took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurse. As she nursed and the…
- You have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out - perhaps a little at a…
- How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except that now we…
- Again I resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this hard world it takes to satisfy the mind…
- And so there would always be more to remember that could no longer be seen...our history is always returning to a little patch of weeds…
- But love, sooner or later, forces us out of time...of all that we feel and do, all the virtues and all the sins, love alone…
- I have this love for Mattie. It was formed in me as he himself was formed. It has his shape, you might say. He fits…
- Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings…
- At the window he sits and looks out, musing on the river, a little brown hen duck paddling upstream among the windwaves close to the…
- The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with…
More Little Quotes
- No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to… — Frank Abagnale
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
- Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a… — Rowan Atkinson
- In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's… — Rowan Atkinson