Moss Quotes

116 quotes by 107 authors

A rolling stone can gather no moss. — Publilius Syrus
Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it. -David Richo A rolling stone can gather no moss — Publilius Syrus
To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which so beautifully adorns… — James Hutton
I had the serendipity of modeling during a temporary interlude between Twiggy and Kate Moss, when it was actually okay for women to look as… — Cybill Shepherd
Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow, sand, mud, grass, dew, earth or… — Robert Macfarlane
Everyone wants to be young, beautiful and rich. I don't say that scornfully: there are worse things to want to be. But that's why, for… — Nigella Lawson
I do not know what 'moss' stands for in the proverb , but if it stood for useful knowledge... I gathered more moss by rolling… — Ernest Shackleton
Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams Beside a pumice… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry reasoning with unlooked-for… — Margaret Fuller
Bravery and adventure! That's the ticket! Don't sit and gather moss. Get up, get out, do what you dream of doing, and if it doesn't… — Garrison Keillor
There will always be something new to discover: a minute moss never found before, a rabbit eating birdseed with the bores on a hungry November… — Ann Zwinger
Knowing is a veneer out minds create and lay over the landscape like a painter's drop cloth set upon a forest floor. Its uniformity protects… — Greg Kramer
There are no medium-sized trees in the deep forest. There are only the towering ones, whose canopy spreads across the sky. Below, in the gloom,… — Terry Pratchett
Kate Moss is too skinny. She also looks like she's 11. It's practically illegal to look at her picture. God bless Kate Dillon, but size… — Gary Dell'Abate
I've been attracted to Kate Moss since I was a teenager. — Ryan McGinley
I got a burlap sack, put a brick in the middle, and filled it with rags, corncobs, some Spanish moss, and sand. I hung that… — Joe Frazier
The GOP of old has grown stale and moss-covered. I don't think we need to name any names, do we? Our party is encumbered by… — Rand Paul
My happiest hours are those in which I think nothing, want nothing, when I do not even dream, but lose myself in some spurious vegetable… — Fernando Pessoa
Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is… — Gary Cherone
In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or… — E. O. Wilson

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