Wendell Berry Quotes

When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.

Wendell Berry

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 5, 1934

Topics

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A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face.

Jimmy Sangster

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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Anatole France

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It is clear that United States immigration policy is badly in need of reform.

Ander Crenshaw

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A biscuit in the States is something you would put gravy on with dinner, and it's not sweet in the least!

Stephan Pastis

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Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam.

Tom Hayden

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I don't want to miss out on my grandchildren and my daughter, and doing Broadway would do just that.

Rita Moreno

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When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you'd go, what did you just play... immediately inspirational writings, amazing. That's what we're going to miss.

Robin Gibb

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I still think it's essential for a parent to cook with their children. Weighing out the ingredients and learning where the food comes from is educational, but it also helps to place meal times at the heart of family life. We never had dinner in front of the TV.

Mary Berry

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When you have those two languages - an analytic one like English and a synthetic, very sensual thing like Russian, you get almost a psychotic sense of humanity that permeates nearly everything. It can help you understand, and it can discourage you, because you see how little can be done.

Joseph Brodsky

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When I got picked up by the Tapout crew and was featured on their reality show, that really jumpstarted my career.

Donald Cerrone

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My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that 'life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you.' She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life. To lead more of a purposefully public life.

Chelsea Clinton

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Sure my career means a hell of a lot, but it will never come before Sandy and my son.

Bobby Darin

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