Here And There Quotes - Page 17

• Words are but the bannerets of a great army, a few bits of waving color here and there; thoughts are the main body of the footman that march unseen below.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Army, Color, Unseen

  "Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by One of His Congregation". Book edited by Edna Dean Proctor, 1859.

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• I have read and re-read the Arusha Declaration and found nothing wrong with it except perhaps replacing a few commas here and there... it was clear for some of us that it would only be a mad man who would stand up and defend the Arusha Declaration.

  Julius Nyerere

  Men, Mad, Found

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• The way I see it, it's a great thing to be the man who hit the most home runs, but it's a greater thing to be the man who did the most with the home runs he hit. So as long as there's a chance that maybe I can hammer out a little justice now and then, or a little opportunity here and there, I intend to do as I always have -- keep swinging.

  Hank Aaron

  Running, Home, Opportunity

  Hank Aaron (2009). “I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• I've watched other directors as an actor and I picked up little things here and there about cameras, [but] I wouldn't consider myself the guy you'd want to hire to do Star Trek.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Stars, Guy, Cameras

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and round bored wells here and there in favored races and places, but He flows in grand undivided currents, shoreless and boundless over creeds and forms and all kinds of civilizations and peoples and beasts, saturating all and fountainizing all.

  John Muir

  God, Civilization, Race

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.167, The Mountaineers Books

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• People who have known the joy of God point each other to flashes of light here and there, and remind each other that they reveal the hidden but real Presence of God. They discover that there are people who heal each other's wounds, forgive each other's offenses, share their possessions, foster the spirit of community, celebrate the gifts they have received, and live in constant anticipation of the full manifestation of God's Glory.

  Henri Nouwen

  Real, Light, People

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• Most men eddy about Here and there-eat and drink, Chatter and love and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurled in the dust, Striving blindly, achieving Nothing; and then they die- Perish;-and no one asks Who or what they have been.

  Matthew Arnold

  Hate, Men, Dust

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.442, Delphi Classics

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• Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these forces.

  Rachel Carson

  Men, Survival, Growing

  Rachel Carson (2011). “Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson”, p.167, Beacon Press

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• To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. So far from being false or fabulous in the common sense,it contains only enduring and essential truth, the I and you, the here and there, the now and then, being omitted. Either time or rare wisdom writes it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Truth, Writing

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.42, Xist Publishing

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• The intimation never wholly deserts us that there is, in the unformed activities of childhood and youth, the possibilities of a better life for the community as well as for individuals here and there. This dim sense is the ground of our abiding idealization of childhood.

  John Dewey

  Children, Childhood, Community

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Murray G. Murphey (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1922”, p.71, SIU Press

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• I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument.

  Mason Cooley

  Book, Reading, Example

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• Life is a concentration camp. You're stuck here and there's no way out and you can only rage impotently against your persecutors.

  Woody Allen

  Way, Life Is, Rage

  "On Being Funny: Woody Allen and Comedy". Book by Eric Lax, 1975.

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• Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber.

  Jane Austen

  Nursing, Sick, Weakness

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.351

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• You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.

  Anthony Doerr

  Childhood, Waiting, Your Children

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• I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.

  Adam Ant

  Reality, House, Gardening

  "You wouldn't know him from Adam" by Adam Higginbotham, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2002.

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• Any teen gets into a little trouble here and there. It's not hard to find trouble when you're looking for it as a kid.

  Channing Tatum

  Kids, Littles, Trouble

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I look at the natural geological record as a history of the world imperfectly kept and written in a changing dialect; of this history we possess the last volume alone, relating only to two or three countries. Of this volume, only here and there a short chapter has been preserved; and of each page, only here and there a few lines.

  Charles Darwin

  Country, Science, Two

  Charles Darwin, Sir Francis Darwin (1987). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 10: The Foundations of The Origin of the Species: Two Essays Written in 1842 and 1844”, p.21, NYU Press

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