Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

We ask the leaf, "Are you complete in yourself?" And the leaf answers, "No, my life is in the branches." We ask the branch, and the branch answers, "No my life is in the root." We ask the root, and it answers, "No my life is in the trunk and the branches and the leaves. Keep the branches stripped of leaves, and I shall die," So it is with the great tree of being. Nothing is completely and merely individual.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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• I get great pleasure from stuffed foods, from an apple strudel to a vegetable samosa, from a whole roasted bird with a sweet and savoury stuffing to a vine leaf filled with rice and spices.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Great
  • Sweet
  • Bird

• From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • World
  • Stop
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• I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Problem
  • Church
  • Answers

• If you were starting over today, what would you do differently? Whatever your answer, start doing it now.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Today
  • Answers
  • Ifs

• I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Good
  • Root
  • Pigs

• Is your skin this tone all over?" "Only one way you're going to discover the answer to that.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Way
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  • Skins

• You are a potential genius; there is no problem you cannot solve, and no answer you cannot find somewhere.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Problem
  • Genius
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• I'm sometimes asked about my productivity, which I find a bit embarrassing to be honest. I don't really have a particularly interesting answer to this question.

  

  Oliver D. Crisp
  • Interesting
  • Question
  • Honest

• There is nothing there - no soul - there is only this question about after death. The question has to die now to find the answer - your answer; not my answer - because the question is born out of the assumption, the belief, that there is something to continue after death.

  

  U.G. Krishnamurti
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Die

• Some knowledge is too heavy for children. When you are older and stronger, you can bear it. For now you must trust me to carry it for you. And I was satisfied. More than satisfied--wonderfully at peace. There were answers to mmy hard questions--for now, I was content to leave them in my father's keeping.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Children
  • Father
  • Knowledge

• Zoey: Wait! Don't go yet. I have so many questions. Nyx: Life will reveal to you the choices you must make to answer them.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Life
  • Choices
  • Waiting

• If you want to cut down a tree, it is no use to climb into its branches.

  

  Vinoba Bhave
  • Tree
  • Cutting
  • Branches

• Don't listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions.

  

  Alfred Einstein
  • Person
  • Answers
  • Questions

• When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Feels
  • Answers
  • Deal

• More fundamentally, however, the answer to petitioners' objection is that there can be no impairment of executive power, whether on the state or federal level, where actions pursuant to that power are impermissible under the Constitution. Where there is no power, there can be no impairment of power.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Action
  • Answers
  • Constitution

• In the course of your education you have always been taught to look for the right answer - but you must also know that in life, sometimes the right answer is that there isn't one.

  

  William Daniels
  • Sometimes
  • Looks
  • Answers

• The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won't tell.

  

  William Golding
  • Knows
  • Answers
  • Skulls

• 'Ever seen a leaf - a leaf from a tree?' 'Yes.' I saw one recently - a yellow one, a little green, wilted at the edges. Blown by the wind. When I was a little boy, I used to shut my eyes in winter and imagine a green leaf, with veins on it, and the sun shining ...' 'What's this - an allegory?' "No; why? Not an allegory - a leaf, just a leaf. A leaf is good. Everything's good.'

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Wind
  • Imagine
  • Veins

• If you are lucky enough to have a parent or two alive on this planet, call them. Don't text; don't e-mail. Call them on the phone.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Parent
  • Lucky
  • Alive

• Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious

  

  Hugo Black
  • Law
  • Made
  • Protect

• It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

  

  William Ernest Henley
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Fate

• What the eyes sees, the ear hears, and the mind believes.

  

  Harry Houdini
  • Mind
  • Eyes
  • Ear

• We ask the leaf, "Are you complete in yourself?" And the leaf answers, "No, my life is in the branches." We ask the branch, and the branch answers, "No my life is in the root." We ask the root, and it answers, "No my life is in the trunk and the branches and the leaves. Keep the branches stripped of leaves, and I shall die," So it is with the great tree of being. Nothing is completely and merely individual.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
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  • Branches
  • Leaf