T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“the breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest; it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo. ... a man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.”
Source: The Belle of Bowling Green
“The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.”
“The breeder can indeed lay the foundations of a good and serviceable dog but the trainer must see to it that he brings to their highest possible development, the physical and mental foundations already laid and thus his is the more grateful task.”
“The breeding of shepherd dogs is the breeding of working dogs; and this must always be the aim, or we shall cease to produce shepherd dogs.”
“The breeding programs for the bulls have improved significantly. The bulls are at a much higher caliber.”
“The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.”
“The breeze across the desert as the light died was so sweet she could almost drink it.”
Source: The Last Savanna
“The breeze and the dew make tranquil the clear dawn;
Behind the curtain there is one who alone is up betimes.
The orioles sing and the flowers smile -
Whose then, after all, is the Spring?”
“The breeze around them seemed to drop – dead – like a door to the best things had just closed.”
Source: Sleeping with the Sun
“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.”
“the breeze brought us a faint sound, as of a distant rat, a huge and mystic rat, gnawing, maybe, at the horizon!”
“The breeze carried herself to my nose. It was a scent I hadn't smelled before. It smelled like fallen leaves, or the first bud in spring The kind of smell that evoked contrary images all at once.”
Source: Almond
“The breeze carried my hair off my shoulder, a shiver ran down my spine, and goose bumps unraveled across my arms when I sensed a presence nearby. I turned to spy a man as pale as ash with a beard as white as snow watching me. Black veins stretched throughout his exposed flesh. His eyes nothing but two black pieces of coal.”
Source: Death Island
“The breeze of God's grace is blowing continually. You have to set your sail to catch that breeze.”
“The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.”
“The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.”
“The breeze tangled into her luxurious curls, making me jealous of its invisible fingers.”
Source: Like Flames in the Night
“The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you Don't go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep! People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch, The door is round and open Don't go back to sleep!”
“The breezes of the West African night were intimate and shy, licking the hair, sweeping through cotton dresses with unseemly intimacy, then disappearing into the utter blackness.”
Source: All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
“The breezes taste Of apple peel. The air is full Of smells to feel- Ripe fruit, old footballs, Burning brush, New books, erasers, Chalk, and such. The bee, his hive, Well-honeyed hum, And Mother cuts Chrysanthemums. Like plates washed clean With suds, the days Are polished with A morning haze.”
“The brevity of being is to your best life.”
“The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.”
Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848
“The brevity of life is grace to walk on your own path.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“The brevity of life is the grace to walk on your own path.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“The brevity of life is walk in the path of light.”
“The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism—an ignorance of or an indifference to those planetary gears which turn more slowly than our own.”
“The brevity of our lives makes watching TV seem like a symptom of insanity.”
“The brewing industry is a very, very male dominated industry. It's a male bastion.”
“The Brexiteers promised their supporters wonderful things, almost none of which can ever come true. The billions that London transfers to Brussels will most certainly not land in the budget of the country's National Health Service. Brexit is going to be very bitter for many of its supporters.”
“The BRIC countries - Brazil, India, China, Turkey, South Africa, Indonesia even, and Russia - are now new actors. Over the last eight years, China multiplied by seven its economic presence and penetration in the Middle East. And if this happens on economic terms and there is a shift towards the East, the relationship between these countries and Israel is completely different from the United States. And it means that the challenges are going to be different, because China is not supporting Israel the way the U.S. are supporting Israel.”
“The Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in ... Guys would drink and fight one another like circle saws. Bottles would come flying over the bandstand like crazy and there was lots of plain common shooting and cutting. But somehow all that jive didn't faze me at all. I was so happy to have some place to blow my horn.”
“The brick of my life is music, but the mortar is faith.”
“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”
“The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!”
Source: The last lecture
“The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.”
“The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.”
“The bricoleur, says Levi-Strauss, is someone who uses 'the means at hand,' that is, the instruments he finds at his disposition around him, those which are already there, which had not been especially conceived with an eye to the operation for which they are to be used and to which one tries by trial and error to adapt them, not hesitating to change them whenever it appears necessary, or to try several of them at once, even if their form and their origin are heterogenous—and so forth. There is therefore a critique of language in the form of bricolage, and it has even been said that bricolage is critical language itself…If one calls bricolage the necessity of borrowing one's concepts from the text of a heritage which is more or less coherent or ruined, it must be said that every discourse is bricoleur.”
Source: Structure, Sign, and Play
“The bride and groom-May their joys be as bright as the morning, and their sorrows but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love.”
“The bride hath paced into the hall,
Red as a rose is she.”
Source: Sibylline leaves: a collection of poems
“The Bride of Christ must break denominational barriers, come together, and reach out to other members of the Body of Christ with love, and not with criticism.”
Source: GOD'S END-TIME ARMY: A Heart Cry for Revival in the Church
“The bride, on her side, sends to the bridegroom a new linen shirt, sewed and embroidered with her own hands. This shirt he wears only twice—once on his wedding-morning for going to the church, the second time when he is carried to his grave.”
Source: The Transylvanian Saxons: and their Superstitions
“The bride's getting ready to toss her bouquet, so get me up there! Mom said the day after she turned 96.”
“The bride's sleek dark hair was smoothed into an unusually restrained knot, but she'd stuck to her guns with the heavy black eyeliner. Her lacy black dress was a little funereal, but clearly a compromise between her own preference for Victoriana and the palace's idea of appropriate styling for a photo shoot that would make the history books. The groom was wearing a pink shirt, and his curls were fluffy.
It was like a grown-up Emily the Strange marrying Bertie Wooster.
The smiles were natural, the body language extremely affectionate, but their knuckles were white. Nerves or tension?
Sylvie studied the cover shot for a few more seconds, then scrolled down to the article. The journalist would have had a lot of the copy sitting ready to go. This had been on the rumor mill since their first joint public appearance. The union between the king's eldest granddaughter and the youngest son of a baronet, who, according to this tabloid, had inherited neither land nor brain cells from his parents.
The overgrown Goth princess and a stuttering social climber with all the poise and sophistication of a golden retriever.
Charming.”
Source: Battle Royal
“The bride, the white bride today a maiden, tomorrow a wife.”
“The bride, white of hair, is stooped over her cane Her faltering footsteps need guiding. While down the church aisle, with wan toothless smile, The groom in a wheelchair comes riding. And who is this elderly couple you ask? You'll find, when you've closely explored it, That here is that rare, most conservative pair, Who waited 'til they could afford it.”
“The bridge between reality and a dream is work.”
“The bridge between the electron and the other elementary particles is provided by the fine structure constant, a ~ 1/137, as manifested in the factor-of-137 spacings between the classical electron radius, electron Compton radius, and Bohr orbit radius. ... An a-quantized mass-generation grid extends accurately from the electron all the way to the top quark t, and leads to a corresponding a-quantized particle lifetime grid.”
Source: The Enigmatic Electron: A Doorway to Particle Masses
“The bridge between the electron and the other elementary particles is provided by the fine structure constant. ... An expanded form of the constant leads to equations that define the transformation of electromagnetic energy into electron mass/energy, ...”
Source: The Enigmatic Electron: A Doorway to Particle Masses
“The bridge fell away into the chasm, and the Cyclops howled ... with delight, because he was standing right next to us.”
Source: Percy Jackson: The Complete Series
“The Bridge had a lot of long, soft profiles about the administration, .. In contrast, BU Today has shorter, hard pieces - more consistent with online journalism - which people can read every morning when they log on.”