Quotes with watering-place

Quotes 661 till 680 of 744.

  • David Herbert Lawrence We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America - as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and we're rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Bertolt Brecht We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • T. S. Eliot We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Barry Lopez We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
    Barry Lopez
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Bonnie Tyler We stay in U2's hotel. They bought a hotel, The Clarence, a nice place and it's in an area where everything's happening, so many fantastic restaurants and bars and the people are so friendly.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Dwight L. Moody We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Byron Howard We thought a human city is kind of like that watering hole. It's where different groups come together and have to find ways to live and survive and cohabit and cooperate, but they may not always see eye-to-eye.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Bill Drayton We would like to have every middle and high school become a place where there will be lots of examples of youth competence and confidence.
    Bill Drayton
    American social entrepreneur
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  • Butch Trucks We would work up a tune that would make me learn a drum pattern I hadn't played before. In the early stages, the pattern wouldn't just fall into place, and I would start thinking about it. And the more I thought about it, the worse it would get.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Bob Ehrlich We're betting, at this place and this time, we have people ready for change in the state of Maryland.
    Bob Ehrlich
    American lawyer and politician (1957 - )
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  • John Lennon We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Djuna Barnes Well, isn't Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else - and must not a waiter be a little less than a waiter to be a good Bohemian?
    Djuna Barnes
    American writer and artist (1892 - 1982)
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  • Jean Dubuffet What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers.
    Jean Dubuffet
    French artist (1901 - 1985)
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  • Cam Newton What happens when you take a lion out of the safari and try to take him to your place of residence and make him a house pet? It ain't going to happen. That's the type of person that I am. I'm that lion.
    Cam Newton
    American football player (1989 - )
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  • Calvin Trillin What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Bertolt Brecht What they could do with round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
    Mother Courage and Her Children The Sergeant, in Scene 1
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Bob Taft What we don't talk about enough is Ohio's unique and remarkable quality of life. We are a state of cities, small towns and growing suburbs where life is affordable and destinations within reach. There is no better place to raise a family.
    Bob Taft
    American politician and attorney (1942 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Andrew Cohen When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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