Tending Quotes

83 quotes by 76 authors

When tending a vast and beautiful garden, you have to plant many seeds, never knowing ahead of time which ones will germinate, which will produce… — Kevin J. Anderson
I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident,… — Albert J. Nock
Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life. — Alfred North Whitehead
Future's the only flower worth tending in this earth, where I sow my words daily: and you know, these good trees bear fruit round the… — Alamgir Hashmi
It opens our eyes to many quite weird possibilities about disease that most medical scientists, tending to be unaware of current evolutionary thought, don't think… — Paul W. Ewald
Clyde Phillip Wachsberger's delightful memoir about tending beds of flowers as compensation for a lonely middle age only to find unexpected romance along the way… — Unknown Author
Tradition is tending the flame, not worshiping the ashes. — Gustav Mahler
During the period of the Saturn-Apollo missions we were pilgrims in space, ranging from home in search of knowledge. Now we will become shepherds tending… — Jimmy Carter
It was that summer, too, that I began the cutting, and was almost as devoted to it as my newfound loveliness. I adored tending to… — Gillian Flynn
When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour… — Samuel Johnson
If I had to depend on what I actually get from sales, I'd be tending bar between sets, — Iggy Pop
Every successful man must have behind him somewhere tremendous integrity, tremendous sincerity, and that is the cause of his signal success in life. He may… — Swami Vivekananda
Like flowers and plants, we too need ground under our feet, warmth and sunshine and food for our spirit, protective boundaries, tending and care, freedom… — Sonia Choquette
Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition… — Paul Valery
An Army is still a crowd, though a highly organized one. It is governed by the same laws, and under the stress of war is… — J F C Fuller
What keeps faith cheerful is the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor. Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith rules through ordinary… — Garrison Keillor
Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing, tending to make man shallow or insane. — Karl Shapiro
So much luck! I'm not putting myself down, I'm not saying I don't have talent - I must have, to have got this far -… — John Mahoney
I put forward a pretty general theory that financial markets are intrinsically unstable. That we really have a false picture when we think about markets… — George Soros
I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field... I was always tending to be in trouble. — Peter Hollingworth

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