T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“To grow the plants and animals that made up my meal, no pesticides found their way into any farmworker’s bloodstream, no nitrogen runoff or growth hormones seeped into the watershed, no soils were poisoned, no antibiotics were squandered, no subsidy checks were written. If the high price of my all-organic meal is weighed against the comparatively low price it exacted from the larger world, as it should be, it begins to look, at least in karmic terms, like a real bargain.”
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“To grow the value of our Naira, the government needs to stop borrowing and start looking inward for value propositions within the country itself. We have alternatives to oil and gas, but it is not going to be the fastest way to raise funds that will be siphoned by the government officials. That is why borrowing from China, Brazil and others is seemingly becoming the norm. That works faster and it is the easiest means of raising money than investing in agriculture and others alternatives we have.”
“To grow up, be a Kid again.”
Source: 10 Alone
“To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.”
Source: Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years
“To grow up in this world is to inherit both damage and possibility. You can’t choose the beginning—but you can reshape the ending.”
“To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable.”
“To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.”
“To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else.”
Source: The Ordering of Love: The New & Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle
“To grow up is to realize the extent to which your existence has been governed by systems of rules, vague guidelines, and increasingly unsupportable norms that have been imposed on you without your consent and are subject to change at a moment’s notice. There were even some rules that you’d only find out about after you’d violated them.”
Source: Permanent Record
“To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.”
“To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.”
Source: When the Snow Fell
“To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough.”
Source: The Abruzzo Trilogy
“To grow up with the loss of your mother is a scar that never goes away.”
“To grow up without risk is to risk not growing up.”
“to grow we need authentic sharing community and we need true contemplative solitude, most people are afraid of both - and choose to rather live somewhere in the mediocre middle”
“To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.”
“To grow your ability to cultivate intimacy with others, begin by growing your intimacy
with yourself.”
Source: Love More, Fight Less: Communication Skills Every Couple Needs: A Relationship Workbook for Couples
“To GROW Yourself , you must KNOW yourself. For you cannot grow what you don't know.”
“To grow yourself, you must know yourself.”
“To grow, change, love, adapt, experience. We have to be open minded. This is the life and that's the way it should be lived.”
“To grow, to become spiritually alive, and vibrant, you really have to struggle. Without struggle, you do not move at all...I would appreciate it if readers who come to my work would try very, very, very hard not to think narrowly as we are taught to think in America.”
“To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.”
Source: Joy Is My Compass: Taking the Risk to Follow Your Bliss
“To grow: that is your deepest and truest need when you say, 'I want to be an actor.'”
“To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.”
“To guard your boundaries within boundaries is the patriotism and angelic duty, but beyond your boundaries; it is spying, and called the breach of rules and devilish activism.”
“To guess what to keep and what to throw away takes considerable skill. Actually it is probably merely a matter of luck, but it looks as if it takes considerable skill.”
“To guide someone
through the halls of hell
is not the same as love.”
Source: Orpheus & Eurydice: A Lyric Sequence
“To hallow'd duty
Here with a loyal and heroic heart,
Bind we our lives.”
“To handle a hard situation, try a soft answer.”
“To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.”
“To handle paint the way Pollock did, you need the muscularity of a ballet dancer.”
“To handle that stardom, the red carpets, the photo shoots, people all of a sudden recognizing you and following you in everyday life, it's a bit weird. It's strange, and it can have funny effects on you in terms of do you like it or don't you like it. Some people run away from it, some people embrace it; I found a good middle ground.”
“To handle the economy and services in a country like Iraq requires delegation of authority and the choice of competent people.”
“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Anger is only one letter short of danger. If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; if he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses much more; he who loses faith, loses all.”
“To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one's lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available.”
Source: Animal Farm and 1984
“To hang our head ostensibly,
And subsequent to find
That such was not the posture
Of our immortal mind,
Affords the sly presumption
That, in so dense a fuzz,
You, too, take cobweb attitudes
Upon a plane of gauze !”
“To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person.”
“To happiness, in whatever form you find it.”
Source: Guarded King
“To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines,
Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.”
Source: The Major Works
“To happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)
“To Harald, may God forgive you and forgive me, too, but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring him with shame or killing him, Lupe. [Suicide note.]”
“To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.”
“To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible, without any charity, to avoid rendering evil for evil. But to render, spontaneously, good for evil - such belongs to a perfect spiritual love.”
“To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.”
Source: Selected Stories of Anton Chekov
“To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.”
“To harden the earth the rocks took charge: instantly they grew wings: the rocks that soared: the survivors flew up the lightning bolt, screamed in the night, a watermark, a violet sword, a meteor. The succulent sky had not only clouds, not only space smelling of oxygen, but an earthly stone flashing here and there changed into a dove, changed into a bell, into immensity, into a piercing wind: into a phosphorescent arrow, into salt of the sky.”
Source: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
“To harm another is to harm oneself”
“To harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.”
Source: Rede eines Indianers:
“To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, "My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)