Culturing Quotes & Sayings

...but nature scants that lights in all it makes, working in much the manner of a painter who knows the true art, but those whose brush hand shakes. — Dante Alighieri

To ameliorate & raise the standard of the workingmen to the bourgeois level, is perhaps to create a race of slaves content with their lot,-a cast of comfortable Pariahs. — Remy De Gourmont

In America we have people from all kinds of backgrounds, all in a cluster, together, and consequently law has become very important in this country. Lawyers and law are what hold us together. There is no ethos. — Joseph Campbell

Scripture trains us to listen to and learn from stories of all kinds, inside the sacred text and outside, and to discern patterns and meanings within them. Stories of all sorts form and shape the character of those who read them. We live within the narrative as creatures in search of an ending, in search of happiness. — N. T. Wright

Argentinity is an invention to make ourselves governable — Luis Garcia Fanlo

And proceeding to follow the example of the devil in quoting Scripture for his own ends I added: She looketh to the ways of her household ... . — Agatha Christie

Creativity is a challenge. It requires us to be fully human
autonomous yet engaged, independent yet interdependent. Creativity bridges the conflict between our individualistic and our sociality. It celebrates the commonality of our species while simultaneously setting us apart as unique individuals. — Greg Graffin

I come from theatre and I always go back every couple of years. — Ciaran Hinds

The third one is culturing the mind. One who has never meditated has no right to even touch the book of Ashtavakra. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

the glue that seems to hold mankind in some kind of lasting stasis is everyone's desire to be useful. — John D. MacDonald

Microbes are just nature's janitors who work to clean up a poorly kept culturing medium. Trying to keep microbes off of and out of your body is like trying to keep the wind out of the trees. — Robert Morse

It's unutterably too much for flesh and blood to bear, even mine. — Emily Bronte

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention — Margaret Mead

And that noise! It was enough to make that happy mailman on Mr. Rogers go postal! — Christopher Golden

Like most rural girls, I had graduated from the Volkschule — Lynn Austin

Grant me paradise in this world; I'm not so sure I'll reach it in the next. — Tintoretto

Most people traffic in abstractions and generalizations because they are grossly incompetent at culturing their intuition or powers of evidency, refining it to grasp the Thisness (Haecceitas) of what is before them. Thinking is like a Stradivarius that has more potential variations in how it is played than any human can finitely perform or capture. — Kenny Smith

Nevertheless, he was already a sick man. He had gotten more than gas at Bill Hapscomb's Texaco. And he gave Harry Trent more than a speeding summons. — Stephen King

Ozzie Boone ... insists that I keep the tone light in these biographical manuscripts. He believes that pessimism is strictly for people who are over-educated and unimaginative. Ozzie counsels me that melancholy is a self-indulgent form of sorrow.
By writing in an unrelievedly dark mode, he warns, the writer risks culturing darkness in his heart, becoming the very thing that he decries. — Dean Koontz