Tracing Quotes

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Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words. — Samuel Johnson
In reviewing my life, in tracing its course, I fill my cell with the pleasure of being what for want of a trifle I failed… — Jean Genet
I first went to the Chubut valley, the colony that runs about 800km across the width of Argentina, in 2000. My uncle had been there… — Matthew Rhys
The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I… — Zoe Lister-Jones
Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of… — Roger Rosenblatt
We not only speak but think and even dream in words. Language is a mirror in which the whole spiritual development of mankind reflects itself.… — Ernest Klein
Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same. — Henry Louis Gates
To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground. — Albert Einstein
The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in… — Henry Hazlitt
It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it. — Gustav Mahler
In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don't start, it's either the fuel system or the electrical system. Teach yourself about the path of… — Adam Savage
Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt… — Nicole Krauss
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf.… — Annie Dillard
High high in the hills , high in a pine tree bed. She's tracing the wind with that old hand, counting the clouds with that… — Ken Kesey
She was a beautiful woman." Gavner sighed, tracing the outline of one of the elephants. "She just had very bad taste in underwear â€¦" "And… — Darren Shan
Beauty is momentary in the mind -- The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's… — Wallace Stevens
Monsters,' her dad said, a tear tracing his cheek. 'I live in a world of monsters. — Rick Riordan
He read the letter again, but could not take in any more meaning than he had done the first time and was reduced to staring… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing… — Carl Sagan
Then her eyes narrowed. The sun was spilling in the window behind her and Dageus's eyes were golden, dappled with darker flecks. Smoky and sensual,… — Karen Marie Moning

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