Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882

Topics

LifeFlowerLiveTreeMaturitySeed

If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.

Jesse Ventura

GovernmentPriceProjectAnything

I just want to love and be loved.

Jennie Garth

LoveLovedWantTo LoveJust

Dance stories, unlike those in opera, are usually simple.

Robert Gottlieb

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The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.

John Podhoretz

FirstExitPollsAlmostHisAfter

Just because you're married doesn't mean that you have to spend 24/7 together and can't have separate interests and hobbies. In a healthy relationship, you both understand - and respect - that you need time apart doing what you want to do.

John Rampton

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That's what I love about running - I feel like we all celebrate each other. Even if you're racing somebody at the finish, it's like you're in it together.

Summer Sanders

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Sinclair Lewis

CourageBadFormVery

I'm extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I don't mean Diana Ross, I mean the mother. My mom paved a road that didn't exist, as did Oprah.

Tracee Ellis Ross

MotherMomBlessedRoadMeanExist

All things take time. A lot of my films still run on cable and are in video stores, and there's a whole generation that doesn't know who I am. So, it's a dichotomy. In some people's minds I may never grow up.

Robby Benson

TimeI AmPeopleGenerationGrow

Abortion on demand, throughout the full nine months of a pregnancy, for virtually any reason, became public policy in the United States of America. No other developed democracy had, or has, such a permissive abortion regime.

Robert Casey

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Most of my ideas are based on the latest research on productivity, performance and mental mastery - that's why so many iconic companies bring me in to help them grow and win.

Robin S. Sharma

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I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do.

Robin Wright

I CanSomethingSureRatherAttempt

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