Borrowed Quote by Wendell Berry Download Open image “The world is not given by our fathers, but borrowed from our children.” — Wendell Berry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Borrowed Children Father Given Our children Our father Parenting World
I am speaking of the life of a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it. — Ihara Saikaku Copy Share Image
The best fathers not only give us life- they teach us how to live. — Marianette Carbito Copy Share Image
People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for the lives… — Birch Bayh Copy Share Image
No child can repay his father unless he finds him enslaved and then buys him and sets him free. — Muhammad Copy Share Image
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Fathers must always be giving if they would be happy themselves; always giving — they would not be fathers else.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I knew a man who, in the age of chain-saws, went right on cutting his wood with a handsaw and an axe. He was… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The concept of country, homeland, dwelling place becomes simplified as "the environment" -- that is, what surrounds us, we have already made a profound… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“That we can prescribe the terms of our own success, that we can live outside or in ignorance of the Great Economy are the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The mind that comes to rest is tended In ways that it cannot intend: Is borne, preserved, and comprehended By what it cannot comprehend.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I love awards, especially if I get them. It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business.… — Ben Gazzara Copy Share Image
The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at. — Bear Bryant Copy Share Image
Any sizeable Portuguese town looks like a superstitious bride's finery - something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I came to this world with nothing, and I leave with nothing but love, everything else is just borrowed.” — The Streets Copy Share Image
Investors, of course, can, by their own behavior make stock ownership highly risky. And many do. Active trading, attempts to "time" market movements, inadequate… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I'm so sick of mermaid dresses, trains, borrowed bling-bling, and a pose. — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
There is a word Kristos in the Greek dictionary, and this word is supposed to be borrowed from the Sanskrit word "Krishna," and Christ… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
In 1981, I borrowed 2,000 pounds - a lot of money back then - paid 50 quid for a seat, packed my own sandwich,… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
I think when Tom Ford was there I borrowed a Gucci tux one time, and they were very nice and he was very kind. — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
There is a big problem. The problem is the country borrowed too much. We went on a borrowing binge, there was a housing boom.… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
