Baskets Quotes

• Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Eggs, Vaccines, Business Success

  "James Watt".

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• Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

  Tom Stoppard

  Art, Skills, America

  Artist Descending a Staircase (1972)

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• I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Eye, Men

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• Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

  Mary Oliver

  Poetry, Way, Empty

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• A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Trust, Wise, Men

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• I tend to think that immortal souls, invisible sky daddies, and Santa Claus all belong in the same basket. The disposition of that basket is left as an exercise for the reader.

  Charles Stross

  Exercise, Thinking, Sky

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• The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

  John Berger

  Dream, Dog, Philosophy

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.231, Vintage

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• A glass pitcher, a wicker basket, a tunic of coarse cloth. Their beauty is inseparable from their function. Handicrafts belong to a world existing before the separation of the useful and the beautiful.

  Octavio Paz

  Beautiful, Glasses, World

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• It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1771). “The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.228

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• What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.

  Charles Babbage

  Science, Names, Empty

  Charles Babbage (1864). “Passages from the Life of a Philosopher”, p.1, London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green

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• A desk, some pads, a pencil, and a large basket -- to hold all of mu mistakes.

  Albert Einstein

  Mistake, Pads, Desks

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• A life like an intricately woven basket, frayed, worn, broken, unraveled, reworked, reknit from many of its original pieces... Life can survive in the constant shadow of illness, and even rise to moments of rampant joy, but the shadow remains, and one has to make space for it.

  Diane Ackerman

  Space, Broken, Joy

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• If you keep missing, get closer to the basket.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Teaching, Assessment, Missing

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• And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Hands, Nuts, Woods

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.288

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• God's providence is not in baskets lowered from the sky, but through the hands and hearts of those who love him. The lad without food and without shoes made the proper answer to the cruel-minded woman who asked, "But if God loved you wouldn't he send you food and shoes?" The boy replied, "God told someone, but he forgot."

  George Arthur Buttrick

  Spiritual, Heart, Boys

  George Arthur Buttrick (1951). “The Interpreter's Bible: General articles on the New Testament. Matthew. Mark”, Abingdon Pr

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• If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that seems to be a bottomless basket, because there is no peace in it.

  Guy Finley

  Spiritual, Needs, Realizing

  "Step Into True Wholeness" by Guy Finley, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2012.

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• Mama's love had always been the kind that acted itself out with soup pot and sewing basket. But now that these things were taken away, the love seemed as whole as before. She sat in her chair at the window and loved us. She loved the people she saw in the street-- and beyond: her love took in the city, the land of Holland, the world. And so I learned that love is larger than the walls which shut it in.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Wall, Taken, Love Is

  Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill (2006). “The Hiding Place”, p.64, Chosen Books

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• Over your breasts of motionless current, over your legs of firmness and water, over the permanence and the pride of your naked hair I want to be, my love, now that the tears are thrown into the raucous baskets where they accumulate, I want to be, my love, alone with a syllable of mangled silver, alone with a tip of your breast of snow.

  Pablo Neruda

  Pride, Hair, Snow

  Pablo Neruda (1990). “Selected Poems”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Eggs, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Young playmates of the rose and daffodil, Be careful ere ye enter in, to fill Your baskets high With fennel green, and balm, and golden pines Savory latter-mint, and columbines.

  John Keats

  Rose, Green, Golden

  Harry Buxton Forman, John Keats (1817). “The complete works of John Keats”, p.192

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• The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Positive, Happiness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.422

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• Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Dog, Women, Fetch

  Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart (2011). “Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man”, p.26, The Floating Press

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• All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Knowing, Laughing, Atheism

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.132, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.

  Donald Knuth

  Kitchen, Important, Needs

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• Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Wise, Wisdom, Perseverance

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