Disdain Quote by Khalil Gibran Download Open image “A root is a flower that disdains fame.” — Khalil Gibran ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disdain Fame Flower Gardening Inspirational Roots
Sometimes you have to wait for that root to grow into a beautiful flower. — Alyssa Tillmon Copy Share Image
“Roots can exist without flowers, but no flower can exist without roots. Religion may be a flower, but people are its roots.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The root and the flower have to trust each other. If the root does not trust, the plant won't blossom. — William Stafford Copy Share Image
Many people do not allow their principles to take root, but pull them up every now and then, as children do the flowers they… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
People are like trees, the leaves are many but the root is one and remember only a good foundation guarantees success and longevity. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
“Someone other than I might have used the word “roots”. It is not part of my vocabulary. I don’t like the word, and I… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
A root, a stem, a leaf, some means of capturing sunlight and air and making food - in sum, a plant. The green substance… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
“It is futile to argue as to which single leaf, which design of branch, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?' — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“That which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space” — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it, And the clay that fills your ears shall be… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you increase the number of rockets you build and you buy, then it's the scale of the economy, the price is going to… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.” — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
In each human heart terror survives The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear All that they would disdain to think were true: Hypocrisy… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts.… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
It seems I have a hard time being attracted to someone unless I respect what they do on some level. Otherwise, I would feel… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for. — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
I've always found that word [“hipster”] is used with such disdain, like it's always used by chubby bloggers who aren't getting laid anymore and… — Gavin McInnes Copy Share Image
I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image