Quotes for All
We not only speak but think and even dream in words. Language is a mirror in which the whole spiritual development of mankind reflects itself. Therefore, in tracing words to their origins, we are tracing simultaneously civilization and culture to their real roots. Ernest Klein
It is indeed a striking proof of the essential soundness of the tradition that with which all these thousands of copies, tracing their ancestry back to so many different parts of the earth and to conditions of such diverse kinds, the variations of text are so entirely questions of detail, not of essential substance. Frederic … Read more
She was a beautiful woman. Gavner sighed, tracing the outline of one of the elephants. She just had very bad taste in underwear … And in boyfriends, I added impishly. Mr. Crepsley burst into laughter at that Darren Shan
There is no you in NewVillager, but there is a we. Your job thenceforth will be that of the bodhisattva, the guru, the gap-toothed docent with a serious thing for Whistler’s Mother. There will be others, newervillagers than yourself, who never stood a chance either. Only through them do you stand any hope of tracing … Read more
The East is marvellously interesting for tracing our steps back. But for going forward, it is nothing. All it can hope for is to be fertilised by Europe, so that it can start on a new phase. D. H. Lawrence
We cannot always trace God’s hand but we can always trust God’s heart. Charles Spurgeon
Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes. Carl Sandburg
We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose. Carl Sagan
We’ve begun at last to wonder about our origins, star stuff contemplating the stars, organized collections of ten billion billion billion atoms contemplating the evolution of matter, tracing that long path by which it arrived at consciousness here on the planet Earth and perhaps throughout the cosmos. Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed … Read more
What we experience in various and specific milieux, I have noted, is often caused by structural changes. Accordingly, to understand the changes of many personal milieux we are required to look beyond them. And the number and variety of such structural changes increase as the institutions within which we live become more embracing and more … Read more