Tending Quotes

83 quotes by 78 authors

I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts.… — John Boehner
We must ask where we are and whither we are tending. — Abraham Lincoln
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's… — Abraham Lincoln
The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to… — John Taylor Gatto
Wilderness is an anchor to windward. Knowing it is there, we can also know that we are still a rich nation, tending our resources as… — Clinton Presba Anderson
Goods move in response to price differences from points of low to points of higher price, the movement tending to obliterate the price difference and… — Frank Knight
She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make… — Willa Cather
But we do now receive a certain portion of His Spirit, tending towards perfection, and preparing us for incorruption, being little by little accustomed to… — Irenaeus of Lyons
Tending 100-year-old vines, I've been fortunate to craft highly rated, small production, estate grown wines since 1998. A labor of love, our wines are sustainably… — Michael Chiarello
It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the… — Uta Hagen
The constitution ought to secure a genuine militia and guard against a select militia. ...All regulations tending to render this general militia useless and defenseless,… — Richard Henry Lee
Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was… — Edward Bellamy
...once again we face a paradox, for it appears that softening your heart and gently tending its wounds will protect you from evil. Building a… — Deepak Chopra
The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based upon the view… — Bertrand Russell
A Warrior also knows that the fool who gives advice about someone else's garden is not tending his own plants. — Paulo Coelho
Tending to ourselves, we tend the world. Tending the world, we tend ourselves. — Jack Kornfield
American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict....We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at another level, the… — Muriel Rukeyser
But that's kind of an easy stance to be if you're a humor columnist, because you're tending to make fun of the government and the… — Dave Barry
Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending. — Barbara Holland
Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough. — Karel Capek

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