Stems Quotes
147 quotes by 139 authors
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My family suffered. My hair turned up in every corner, every drawer, every meal. Even in the rice puddings Tessie made, covering each little bowl…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard to credit the…
— Parker J. Palmer
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A book should be a garden that fits in the hands. Word-petals of color. Stems of strength. roots of truth. Turn a page and turn…
— Max Lucado
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There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no…
— Toni Morrison
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The stems stood tall and straight, one series arranged in a single line, the other in a crudely shaped heart, the final one in the…
— Lurlene McDaniel
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The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it glorifies to the behavior it regulates, stems…
— Guy Debord
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You can even say that I hated myself at certain periods. I was too fat, or maybe too tall, or maybe just plain too ugly…
— Audrey Hepburn
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our bones like stems into the sky will forever cry victory
— Charles Bukowski
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I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice,…
— Anne Frank
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Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed forward incessantly and…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The trees bathed their great heads in the waves of the morning, while their roots were planted deep in gloom; save where on the borders…
— George MacDonald
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From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom…It was like a flute song forgotten in another existence and…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For…
— Marianne Williamson
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How do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong in the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen?
— Jodi Picoult
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I needed a vacation. I needed 5 women. I needed to get the wax out of my ears. My car needed an oil change. I'd…
— Charles Bukowski
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Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective…
— Albert Einstein
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I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall…
— William Henry Hudson
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Confidence in oneself stems from the trust one has in knowledge.
— Nelly Mazloum
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Our lack of compassion stems from our inability to see deeply into the nature of things.
— Surya Das
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The prison industrial complex is perhaps, at least domestically, the most striking example of us putting profit before people. It all stems from one basic…
— Eugene Jarecki
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