Chinese Quote by Maltbie Davenport Babcock Download Open image “With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin.” — Maltbie Davenport Babcock ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chinese Chinese proverb Keep patience Leafs Life patience Mulberry Patience Patience and perseverance Perseverance Perseverence Satin Short patience Silk Time Time and patience Time patience Wise chinese
O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as the time steals onwards, while none perceives… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The sun, a red wheel, was sinking slowly in the west. Besides being spectacularly beautiful, the early-summer sunset was exceedingly soft and gentle: black… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
God in the whizzing of a pleasant wind Shall march upon the tops of mulberry trees. — George Peele Copy Share Image
“You are not beautiful, exactly. You are beautiful, inexactly. You let a weed grow by the mulberry and a mulberry grow by the house.… — Marvin Bell Copy Share Image
The rustling of the silk is discontinued, Dust drifts over the courtyard, There is not sound of footfall, and the leaves Scurry into heaps… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly. — John Milton Copy Share Image
The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but not in… — John Milton Copy Share Image
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet. — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong, how hard the battle goes, the day how long, faint not, fight on! Tomorrow… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them… To face every opportunity of life thoughtfully, and ask its meaning bravely and earnestly,… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
The only test of possession is use. The talent that is buried is not owned. The napkin and the hole in the ground are… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
The tests of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his character. The blow at… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Pay little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Salvation is not putting a man into heaven but putting heaven into a man. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Lord, let me make this rule To think of life as school, And try my best To stand each test, And do my work,… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
You are not responsible for the disposition you are born with, but you are responsible for the one you die with. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Spirituality is best manifested on the ground, not in the air. Rapturous day-dreams, flights of heavenly fancy, longings to see the Invisible, are less… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty. Let the world tell you in… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Prayer must mean something to us, if it is to mean anything to God. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
I agree with you that the communion with the invisible saints must be more of a dream than a reality. But we have a… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
If China someday gains a more fair, just, and accountable system of government, it will be due to the hard work and efforts of… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
My grandparents were far more English in their manners than they were Chinese. For example, we spoke English at home, had afternoon tea every… — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain't over 'til you both get your cookie. — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
The remarkable thing about the Chinese is that they've operated differently than the Russians, the Iranians, and the North Koreans. By and large, they… — David E. Sanger Copy Share Image
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The Pink Panther wasn't shown to the press for reasons that soon became apparent when I saw it at a public performance. Two people… — Philip French Copy Share Image
The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only one child.… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
