T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The baby's life is never willfully destroyed because the mother's life is in danger.”
“The baby, a girl, is born at 6:24 a.m. She weighs six pounds, ten ounces. The mother takes the baby in her arms and asks her, "Who are you, my little one?" And in response, this baby, who is Liz and not Liz at the same time, laughs.”
Source: Elsewhere
“The baby, assailed by eyes, ears, nose, skin, and entrails at once, feels it all as one great blooming, buzzing confusion.”
“The Babylonian and Assyrian civilizations have perished; Hammurabi, Sargon and Nebuchadnezzar are empty names; yet Babylonian mathematics is still interesting, and the Babylonian scale of 60 is still used in Astronomy.”
“The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.”
Source: The bachelor life
“The bacillus of efficiency has also attacked football, and some dare to ask what's the point in playing well. I feel tempted to tell about the time they dared to ask Borges what is poetry for, to which he answered: 'What is a sunrise for? What are caresses for? What is the smell of coffee for?'”
“The back door of every tomb opens on a hilltop.”
Source: Weighed and Wanting
“The back door popped open, and Claire, fairy wings all a-flutter, pulled Miranda inside. It was like a military operation, only with one hundred percent less camouflage.”
Source: All Hallows
“The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.”
Source: Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar
“The back of Donald Trump's head is fantastic and his eyebrows are amazing. His overbite and his series of chins and the color of him and the texture. It's amazing! He's like an artifact. It's an amazing head to draw and I have to think it's got to be part of his success. It's ready-made for public consumption.”
“The back of my hand to guilt.”
Source: The Far Side of the World
“The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.”
“The back of the church was raised up from the ground. Tossed in among its supports were what looked like moldering bones.
My heart ached so much for these poor souls, neglected even after death, I turned away to head back, but managed only a few burdened steps.
I drew up abruptly and froze.
An old, worn marker, standing off by itself, grabbed at my heart.
It was Edgar Alan Poe.
He fit in so perfectly there. Maybe I did, too. His sorrow and pain ate through me as I stood, head lowered. Can’t even death let us step away from our darkness?
It was like he was scratching a warning into the dirt with his finger, and meant it specifically for me. Don’t wait around for sermons to wash you clean, he seemed to say, for death or drugs to close your eyes. God won’t come roaring in with fresh troops to drive away the darkness we’ve walled our own souls up in. He didn’t put us there; we’ll have to dig ourselves out.
I looked at my own life as I stood there, feeling buried alive, like some of his characters.
But unlike his characters I had caught a flash of hope.”
Source: Entertaining Naked People
“The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I'm just making that bit up. I had no idea how far away the sea was. Only men could do things like that. "Half a mile." "Fifty yards." Giving directions, that sort of thing. I could look at a woman and say "Thirty-six C." Or "Let's try it in the next size up." But I had no idea how far away Tim's sea was except that I wouldn't want to walk to it in high heels.”
“The back-doore robs the house.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“The backbone of our nation's domestic defense against terrorist attacks will continue to be the men and women in local law enforcement and emergency services.”
“The backbone of success is...hard work, determination, good planning, and perserverence.”
“The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.”
“The backbone of the electrical grid is largely massive numbers of steam driven engines that turn electrical generators.”
“The backbone of the preaching of Christ is a conviction of the truth of Christ.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 38
“The background assumption seems to be that, paradoxically, by identifying and discussing socially produced inequalities, we further entrench them; whereas if we ignore them, perhaps they will go away.”
Source: Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism
“The background looks like a lot of red cards.”
“The background of the Negro culture is voodoo and magic; and the purposes the magic are control and power over God, man, nature and society. Voodoo and magic was the religion and life of America's Negro.”
“The background reveals the true being and state of being of the man or thing. If I do not possess the background, I make the man transparent, the thing transparent.”
“The backgrounds by design are a very key part of the conversation, because I want a kind of fight or pressure to exist between the figure and the background.”
“The backgrounds in Lord of the Rings are all explained.”
“The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.”
“The backlash against women's rights would be just one of several powerful forces creating a harsh and painful climate for women at work. Reagonomics, the recession, and the expansion of a minimum-wage service economy also helped, in no small measure, to slow and even undermine women's momentum in the job market. But the backlash did more than impede women's opportunities for employment, promotions, and better pay. Its spokesmen kept the news of many of these setbacks from women. Not only did the backlash do grievous damage to working women C it did on the sly.”
“the backlash convinced the public that women's 'liberation' was the true contemporary American scourge - the source of an endless laundry list of personal, social, and economic problems.”
Source: Backlash: the undeclared war against American women
“The backlash to [Sarah] Palin`s comments was swift, with veterans and veterans` groups criticizing the apparent politicization of post-traumatic stress disorder.”
“The backseat produced the sexual revolution.”
Source: Do it; scenarios of the revolution
“The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.”
“The backside of heroism is often rather sad; women and servants know that. They know also that the heroism may be no less real for that. But achievement is smaller than men think. What is large is the sky, the earth, the sea, the soul.”
Source: The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin
“The backslider likes the preaching that wouldn't hit the side of a house, while the real disciple is delighted when the truth brings him to his knees.”
Source: Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ
“The backspin of memory lands us in the strangest of places.”
Source: Twist
“The backstory to anyone of mixed race is a lifetime spent being incorrectly perceived and choosing either to allow that misperception to continue or to correct it, so I am aware of identity and race as being much more fluid, I think, than someone who is "purely" one thing or the other. And acting does challenge me to address those particular issues.”
“The Backstreet Boys can sing their asses off. I'm not so sure about those other boy bands. But Backstreet Boys have my ultimate respect.”
“The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.”
“The Backstreet Boys....they really do have good music!”
“The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a sense that the safety nets had been cut away, that each citizen walked upon the high wire of this, the real world. I longed not merely to travel through it, but to live in such a city.”
Source: The Caliph's House
“The backward drag in the earlier stages of one’s spiritual commitment can be immense. Intensity of commitment ensures that the kindling elements of devotion and dedication overcome the tremendous resistance to forward movement. We calm our minds, heal our bodies, save our relationships, and help the world.”
Source: The Love of Devotion
“The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels.”
Source: The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis
“The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media will continue to attack public service pensions, as if school meals staff, refuse collectors and healthcare workers have no right to a decent retirement.”
“The bacteria in the virus are probably searching for new hosts to carry them, so they can feed on fresh meat.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“The bacteria of resentment bred: distance turned to distrust; distrust turned to bitterness; bitterness to hate, which is, after all, a kind of grievous love”
Source: The Human Script
“The bacterium Escherichia coli (E. Coli) takes about twenty minutes to divide. So after one hour, one E. Coli cell has turned into eight. After only six and a half hours, there will be over a million bacteria!”
“The Bactrian have two humps; the Arabian one only. They are swift in battle and most useful to carry burdens. This animal is extremely observant of rule and measure, for it will not move if it has a greater weight than it is used to, and if it is taken too far it does the same, and suddenly stops and so the merchants are obliged to lodge there.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“The bad angels were the jinn, and the good angels were the jinn too, and we spoke to them both in the desert. In Arabic, jinn has the same root as the word for paradise, jenna. The word for jinn and the word for paradise both have the same root as the word for madness, junun. To be close to the jinn is to be close to madness, is to be even closer to paradise.”
Source: Sonora
“The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.”
“The bad blood rose in me, just like wine.”
Source: Fingersmith