T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The fantasy of life;
When I was a child, I said ‘I can’t wait to grow up’.
When I was adult, I said ‘I miss childhood adventures’.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“The fantasy of living these experiences was one thing, but having the self-confidence to head out into the world and chase them, to take a great leap into the unknown and trust that the world would catch me, was another thing altogether.”
Source: Jet Lag Junkie: Unfiltered Tales of a Compulsive Wanderer
“The fantasy of the wedding day is that it represents undeniable public and private truth that you have been chosen. For that one day, you are the most valuable creature in the world - a treasure, a princess, a prize.”
“The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.”
“The fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness.”
“The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.”
“The Far East and Eastern Siberia are already developing according to a Chinese scenario, the full scope of which will be revealed in the near future. In the next 10 to 15 years, a lot of Russian territories will become at least de facto Chinese. This will change the situation in Russia fundamentally.”
“The Far East is of particular significance for us in terms of this region's priority development. Over the last few years, let us say even over the last decades, we were faced with many problems here. We paid little attention to this territory although it deserves a lot more of it, because it concentrates great wealth as well as opportunities for Russia's future development.”
“The far northern scenery is absolutely desolate but is marvelously beautiful, and I shall never regret that I have seen it, even though it cost me the unbelievable privations and exertions which we suffer here.”
“The far object of a training system is to prepare the combat officer mentally so that he can cope with the unusual and unexpected as if it were the altogether normal and give him poise in a situation where all else is in disequilibrium.”
Source: Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command in Future War
“The Far Outsiders know nothing of the Force. And the Force knows nothing of them.”
Source: Star Wars: Rogue Planet
“The far right and the far left can be equally insane.”
“The far right is saying to us: Forget about the two-state solution, it is going to be a Jewish state from the coast to Jordan. The left wing says you have to forget about Jewish self-determination, you will have to live as a minority in an Arab state - just like the whites in South Africa. The key word that both have in mind is that the situation in the West Bank is "irrevocable." It is one of the words I dislike the most.”
“The far Right now finding a new way to attack Hillary Clinton. Questioning whether she's too old to get elected.Rush Limbaugh goes after Hillary Clinton asking if this country will 'actually want to watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis.'”
“The far things were very beautiful and decorated when I went close to them I wished thousands of wishes to those close.”
“The Farbers like a corn bread stuffing with sausage; my family is an herb-and-onion, regular-bread stuffing group. They like their sweet potatoes mashed, with marshmallows on top; we go for sliced, with a praline pecan topping. They do green beans and we do Brussels sprouts. But both families like a classic roasted turkey with pan gravy, homemade cranberry sauce, soft yeast rolls, mashed potatoes, and apple pie for dessert.”
Source: How to Change a Life
“The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.”
“The farewell between Hitler and Mussolini at the station was very affectionate. Both men were moved.”
“The Farfield Curse is a story you'll want to pick up, but not put down!”
“The farm is a base of operations–a stronghold. You can withdraw into yourself there. Solitude for reflection is an essential ingredient in self-development. I think a person has to be withdrawn into himself to gather inspiration so that he is somebody when he comes out again among folks–when he “comes to market’ with himself. He learns that he’s got to be almost wastefully alone.”
Source: Interviews with Robert Frost
“The farm is your haven,
and nature is your guide,
it's the secret key to freedom,
that all tyrants despise.”
“The farm labourers employed to harvest the corn often displayed a real fear of cutting the last sheaf, due to the fact that they felt they were slaying the spirit of the corn.”
Source: Mrs Darley's Pagan Whispers: A Celebration of Pagan Festivals, Sacred Days, Spirituality and Traditions of the Year
“The farm was a great place to grow up, but I preferred the Hollywood Hills. My aunt looked like Lucille Ball and everything she touched was beautiful and elegant. But I was intelligent enough to understand I would never be like her.”
“The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.”
Source: The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch
“The farmer and the farm, like "the environment," are looked upon, for example, as means to offset trade deficits. The farm is a place where we can externalize costs. The cost of pesticides to the farmer and the cost of the pesticides to the soil and groundwater are regarded similarly by the public: "a serious problem that something ought to be done about." But the problem is more fundamental than this glib statement would indicate, for soil pollution is an expense of production. So are pesticides and nitrates in our farm wells. So is the loss of farmers from the land.”
“The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of the amateur, concerned with the creation of beauty rather than with the providing of food. Gardening is a luxury occupation; an ornament, not a necessity, of life.”
“The farmer doesn't care for the pitchers' battle that resolves itself into a checkers game. The farmer loves the dramatic, and slugging is more dramatic than even the cleverest pitching.”
“The farmer doesn't sow any seed; he chooses it carefully for by experience he knows that the harvest will be of the same Nature of the sowing. The wise man observes the laws of life and lives accordingly. Therefore, you sow in the furrow of life generous and beneficial procedures for all that according to the law your harvest, being good will make your life better.”
“The farmer grows food to feed the nation.”
“The farmer grows food to feed the people.”
“The farmer has patience and trusts the process. He just has the faith and deep understanding that through his daily efforts, the harvest will come.And then one day, almost out of nowhere, it does.”
Source: The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in
“The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.”
Source: Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)
“The farmer is a poor creature who skins the land and leaves it worthless to his children. The farmer is a good farmer who, having enabled the land to support himself and to provide for the education of his children, leaves it to them a little better than he found it himself.”
Source: Letters and Speeches
“The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.”
Source: The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy
“The farmer works the soil. The agriculturalist works the farmer.”
“The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, That wholly consisted of lines like these.”
“The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted.”
Source: Two Solitudes
“The farmers are the founders of civilization.”
“The farmers can be thankful. Didn't the Farm Board decide in Washington last week that they could have cheaper interest? All the farmers have to do now is to find something new to put up as security.”
Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929
“The farmers markets were another step to giving people an opportunity to take more power over their own lives-and also to provide another outlet for organic produce. That is important because the production and distribution of food is increasingly being monopolized and controlled by large corporate structures, large financial structures.”
“The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“The farmers must be given subsidies to improve upon their yield, to feed the growing populations.”
“The farms you live in will be yours for free. When mineworkers strike, it will be to complain that we are giving them too much money.”
“The Faroes, Iceland, and Greenland were all found by accident when ships were driven off course in bad weather; nobody just set out for a far horizon. It is also important to remember that many of these Viking voyagers were simply never seen again.”
Source: Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
“The Farrelly brothers make movies the way you imagine a movie set would be when you're a kid - fun all the time.”
“The farther a man follows the rainbow, the harder it is for him to get back to the life which he left starving like an old dog.”
Source: My sister's hand in mine: an expanded edition of the collected works of Jane Bowles
“The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it.”
“The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.”
Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism
“The farther away a man is, the less clearly he sees.”
Source: A Rare and Dangerous Beast
“The farther away, the closer the home becomes.”