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Thing Quotes by Wendell Berry
- When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to…
- I’ve been thinking about that question about what city people can do. The main thing is to realize that country people can’t invent a better…
- WE ARE DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY - I mean our country itself, our land. This is a terrible thing to know, but it is not a…
- How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.
- We don't have a right to ask whether we're going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what's…
- To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that…
- All we can do to prepare rightly for tomorrow is to do the right thing today.
- History leaves no doubt that among of the most regrettable crimes committed by human beings have been committed by those human beings who thought of…
- The name of our proper connection to the earth is 'good work,' for good work involves much giving of honor. It honors the source of…
- Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by the academic specialists.…
- I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or weakness…
- Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.
- 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…
- History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every shakable thing has…
- The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the river best. It is wonderful…
- This is a book about Heaven. I know it now. It floats among us like a cloud and is the realest thing we know and…
- A tree forms itself in answer to its place and the light. Explain it how you will, the only thing explainable will be your explanation.”…
More Thing Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing. — J. J. Abrams
- It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a… — Julian Assange
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong