Wendell Berry Quotes

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

Wendell Berry

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• I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Music
  • Want
  • Basketball

• I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Travel

• There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • People
  • World
  • Marriage

• In life go straight and turn right.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Life
  • Go
  • Turn

• When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • You

• We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Women
  • Rock
  • Daily

• I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.

  

  Parker Young
  • School
  • High
  • Team

• It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Up
  • Present

• A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Song
  • Care
  • Take Care

• I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • World
  • Music
  • Rock

• I have this concept that I call 'Combo Meals.' The idea is that I start with the kids' meal and then add a few more ingredients, and it becomes the adult meal. This way I'm not making two entirely separate dishes. I'm just simply adding on to what I'm already making.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Kids
  • Way
  • Start

• I'm not a publicity hound, I hope.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Hope
  • Publicity
  • Hound

• Would it be a surprise if entrepreneurs recoil at the thought of consciously courting any person who has more power and money than they have?

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Money
  • Power
  • Thought

• Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• When my husband and I first got married, I was so shocked at my own level of joy that I was convinced it was all going to come crashing down.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Joy
  • Husband
  • First

• My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Book
  • Me
  • Intention

• I love the food in Thailand because of the exotic spices they use. Their style of cooking is unique to their culture and always amazing.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Culture
  • Food
  • Amazing

• I went over to the Sargent, said, 'Sargent, you got a lot a damn gall to ask me if I've rehabilitated myself, I mean, I mean, I mean that just, I'm sitting here on the bench, I mean I'm sitting here on the Group W bench 'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough join the army, burn women, kids, houses and villages after being a litterbug.'

  

  Arlo Guthrie
  • Women
  • Kids
  • Moral

• Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Marriage

• Being a fan of someone's show and the way they still hold a family together doesn't mean I am OK with all they say.

  

  Liam Payne One Direction
  • Family
  • Together
  • Mean

• Together we can make a difference and empower communities to be self sufficient.

  

  David Batstone
  • Difference
  • Communities
  • Sufficient

• To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Nature
  • Hope
  • Earth