Greetings Quotes

• How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Nature, Light

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.351, Library of America

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• Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Life, Mirrors, Return

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• Greetings, I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspirational, Together, Different

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• Speak tenderly; let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well.

  Mother Teresa

  Kindness, Eye, Heart

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• Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

  Tecumseh

  Lonely, Native American, Medicine

  "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Morning, Old Friends, No Friends

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 2”, p.146, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Life, Sexy

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• Do not think little of any good deed, even if it is just greeting your brother with a smile.

  Muhammad

  Brother, Thinking, Humanity

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• Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your eyes, kindness in your face, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greetings. We are all but His instruments who do our little bit and pass by. I believe that the way in which an act of kindness is done is as important as the action itself.

  Mother Teresa

  Kindness, Believe, Eye

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• Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

  Oprah Winfrey

  New Year, Cheer, New Beginnings

  FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Jan 03, 2012

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• In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.

  Zig Ziglar

  Cheerful, Negative, Cases

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• Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Communication, Language, Indigestion

  A Poet's Proverbs 'Of Tact'

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• Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Farewell, Bye, Series

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Myself When Young: The Shaping of a Writer”, p.120, Hachette UK

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• If you are greeted then return the greetings more warmly. If you are favored, then repay the obligation manifold; but he who takes the initiative will always excel in merit.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Return, Merit, Initiative

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• I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had.

  Eva Braun

  Three, Cards, Done

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• Have a great day. Note: does not apply to my enemies.

  Demetri Martin

  Have A Great Day, Enemy, Doe

  Twitter post from Oct 15, 2013

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• Happy birthday greetings and warmest wishes, too May today, tomorrow, everyday Be truly happy for you.

  Margaret Brown

  Birthday, Everyday, Wish

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• Love is not simply the sum of sweet greetings and wrenching partings and kisses and embraces, but is made up more of the memory of what has happened and the imagining of what is to come.

  Anita Shreve

  Sweet, Memories, Kissing

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• Sometimes you meet yourself on the road before you have a chance to learn the appropriate greeting. Faced with your own possibilities, the hard part is knowing a speech is not required. All you have to say is yes.

  Pearl Cleage

  Inspiration, Knowing, Speech

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• And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

  Chris Cornell

  Believe, Night, Light

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• I never give anyone just one congratulation. Congratulations are always plural. They are similar to grapes.

  Demetri Martin

  Congratulations, Giving, Grapes

  Twitter post from Jul 16, 2013

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• Abe's face came back into focus. "Greetings, Zmey," I said weakly. Somehow, him being here didn't surprise me. "Nice of you to slither on in." He shook his head, wearing a rueful smile. "I think you've outdone me when it comes to sneaking around dark corners. I thought you were on your way back to Montana." "Next time, make sure you write a few more details into your bargains. Or just pack me up and send me back to the U. S. For real." "Oh," he said, "that's exactly what I intend to do." He kept smiling as he said it, but somehow, I had a feeling he wasn't joking.

  Richelle Mead

  Real, Nice, Writing

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  Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Thinking, Crowds, Life Is

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov”, p.46, Vintage

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• Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by sight, who meet and observe each other daily - no hourly - and are nevertheless compelled to keep up the pose of an indifferent stranger, neither greeting nor addressing each other, whether out of etiquette or their own whim.

  Thomas Mann

  Sight, People, Ticklish

  Thomas Mann, Stanley Appelbaum (1995). “Death in Venice”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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