Quotes with back-scratching

Quotes 1 till 20 of 819.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next 
  • Mark Twain A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
    - +
    +3
  • John Holt No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.
    John Holt
    American author and educator (1923 - 1985)
    - +
    +3
  • Carl Sandburg The machine yes the machine
    never wastes anybody's time
    never watches the foreman
    never talks back.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
    - +
    +3
  • Carl Sandburg Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
    - +
    +2
  • Robert Frost Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
    - +
    +2
  • Doug Horton If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
    - +
    +2
  • George Orwell No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
    - +
    +2
  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
    - +
    +2
  • Alice Meynell A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far.
    Alice Meynell
    British poet, writer (1847 - 1922)
    - +
    +1
  • Carl Gustav Jung An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
    - +
    +1
  • Henry Miller Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
    - +
    +1
  • Blind Lemon Jefferson Back water rising, coming in my windows and doors I leave with a prayer in my heart: back water won't rise no more
    - +
    +1
  • Gordon Graham Decision is a sharp knife that cuts or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.
    - +
    +1
  • Nelson Mandela Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
    - +
    +1
  • Adrian Edmondson I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.
    Adrian Edmondson
    British actor (1957 - )
    - +
    +1
  • Robert Orben I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
    Robert Orben
    American editor, writer, humorist (1927 - 2023)
    - +
    +1
  • Carol Gilligan Implicitly adopting the male life as the norm, they have tried to fashion women out of a masculine cloth. It all goes back to Adam and Eve a story which shows... that if you make a woman out of man, you are bound to get into trouble.
    Carol Gilligan
    American feminist, ethicist and psychologist (1936 - )
    - +
    +1
  • Russell Wayne Baker Life is always walking up to us and saying, ''Come on in, the living's find,'' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.
    Russell Wayne Baker
    American writer (1925 - 2019)
    - +
    +1
  • Sir Walter Scott Look back, and smile on perils past.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
    - +
    +1
  • Henry David Thoreau Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
    - +
    +1
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next 
All back-scratching famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com