Wendell Berry Quotes

Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.

Wendell Berry

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PositiveFarmingWhyEatInterest

I'm a morning person: if I don't get up, put the coffee on and get to my desk by 8, the day has already lost a lot of its promise.

Jennifer Gilmore

MorningCoffeeDayPersonDeskLost

There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even when they are wrong. The emperor cannot be shown to have no clothes.

Michael Eric Dyson

MoneyPeopleClothesDarkWrongWho

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.

Stella Benson

LoveManNeverStrangerCallFoe

I know for myself, and maybe I'm weird or whatever, but the whole thing is about constantly redefining identity.

Mike D

MyselfIdentityWeirdKnowWhatever

To be stronger, you finish everything you start. You can't take a break.

Luke Rockhold

StartStrongerYouFinishEverything

I come from a generation which definitely treated anyone older and more successful with reverence. But it's much more democratic nowadays.

Diana Rigg

GenerationMoreSuccessfulReverence

What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.

Chuck Palahniuk

ChildrenBookTryingAlwaysGhost

I grew up with an older brother who was always stronger and faster and better than me at everything, but I was close enough in age to try and compete, so we had a competitive childhood.

Anthony Browne

AgeChildhoodBrotherMeBetterTry

The use of music in 'Gloria' is not cynical.

Sebastian Lelio

MusicCynicalUse

Rationality is not one of this industry's attributes.

Scott Hamilton

IndustryAttributesRationality

Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise.

Thomas Dekker

EyesKissYouRiseGoldenSmiles

People now live their lives like an open wound to be famous - they do bad things because they're rewarded for it.

Ricky Gervais

LivePeopleFamousBadNowOpen

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