Us Back Quotes
219 quotes by 201 authors
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Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an…
— May Sarton
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to…
— Gertrude Stein
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In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked…
— Tom Vilsack
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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That…
— Alexander Pope
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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God…
— Alice Walker
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We forgive, we mortify our resentment; a week later some chain of thought carries us back to the original offence and we discover the old…
— C.S. Lewis
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Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts, Teach us something please, Whether we be old and bald, Or young with scabby knees, Our heads could do with…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Little by little, in telling Sam all these details, I got to see the bigger point of baseball, that it can give us back ourselves.…
— Anne Lamott
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Writing practice brings us back to the uniqueness of our own minds and an acceptance of it. We all have wild dreams, fantasies, and ordinary…
— Natalie Goldberg
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Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration. You saying God…
— Alice Walker
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We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king's men cannot put us back together again
— Gayle Forman
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The poor are always prophetic. As true prophets always point out, they reveal God's design. That is why we should take time to listen to…
— Jean Vanier
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There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.
— Jan Karon
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To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, the…
— Joan Didion
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The wind always brings us back to the same wall
— Joanne Harris
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His gold eyes grew very soft. “You said you loved me.†“You knew that already,†I reminded him, ducking my head. “It was nice to…
— Stephenie Meyer
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We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.
— H.G. Wells
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There are few times when we know with absolute certainty we are going to do something for the last time. Life has a way of…
— Megan Hart
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Then, Éowyn of Rohan, I say to you that you are beautiful. In the valleys of our hills there are flowers fair and bright, and…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven, which brings us back to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes, not from…
— Richard Siken
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