Stem Quotes - Page 13

• Still lie the sheltering snows, undimmed and white;
  And reigns the winter's pregnant silence still;
  No sign of spring, save that the catkins fill,
  And willow stems grow daily red and bright.
  These are days when ancients held a rite
  Of expiation for the old year's ill,
  And prayer to purify the new year's will.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  New Year, Prayer, Lying

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1891). “A Calendar of Sonnets”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Successful, Unity, Groups

  "The future according to Dennis Ritchie". Interview with Danny Kalev, www.itworld.com. December 20, 2000.

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• Hoeing: A manual method of severing roots from stems of newly planted flowers and vegetables.

  Henry Beard

  Weed, Flower, Vegetables

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• The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.

  Rollo May

  Inspiration, Heart, Blood

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Who knew, in 2000, that compassionate conservatism meant bigger government, unrestricted government spending, government intrusion in personal matters, government ineptitude, and cronyism in disaster relief? Who knew, in 2000, that the only bill the president would veto, six years later, would be one on funding stem-cell research? A more accurate term for Mr. Bush's political philosophy might be incontinent conservatism.

  Christopher Buckley

  Philosophy, Government, Cells

  "Let’s quit while we are behind". washingtonmonthly.com. October 1, 2006.

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• A studio session ... provides the greatest chance for control. Even though there is total freedom, I still dislike studio photography and the contrived images that usually stem from this genre.

  Eve Arnold

  Photography, Chance, Photographer

  Eve Arnold (1987). “Marilyn Monroe--an appreciation”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Passion, Government, Insatiable Need

  "Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History". Book by Fawn M. Brodie, ch. 1, 1974.

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• The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see powerful beasts reduced to cringing cowards by a whip-cracking trainer, is primitive and medieval. It stems from the old idea that we are superior to other species and have the right to hold dominion over them.

  Desmond Morris

  Powerful, Animal, Ideas

  "Rose-Tinted Menagerie" by William Johnson, (p. 10), 1990.

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• All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.

  Blaise Pascal

  Evil, Solitude, Handle

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• Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.

  Walter Lord

  Birthday, Cake, Sagging

  Walter Lord (2012). “A Night to Remember”, p.74, Open Road Media

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• A collection of errors does not make a truth: quality cannot stem from quantity – a value is not a weight. The reasons of the majority cannot be taken as good reasons.

  Alain de Benoist

  Taken, Errors, Quality

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• I think the success of my work stems from being truthful.

  Catherine O'Hara

  Thinking, Truthful, Being Truthful

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

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• That's the original problem from which the escalator mess stems. There's just too many of them.

  Robert James Thomson

  Problem, Mess, Escalators

  "Dr. Gridlock". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• I'm a supporter of embryonic stem cell research. I do think there are very important moral and also religious questions at stake in the debate over embryonic stem cell research.

  Michael Sandel

  Religious, Thinking, Cells

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Life that crawled, life that slunk and crept and never closed its eyes. Life that burrowed and scurried, and life so still it was indistinguishable from the ivy stems on which it lay. Birth, life, and death - each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.

  Toni Morrison

  Inspirational Life, Eye, Birth Life And Death

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• Last week I was in London at an awards show, then I flew home and was in an RV park with my wife and kids in our motorhome, this week I'm in NY doing a charity event, and tomorrow I'll be coaching my daughters soccer practice. I guess the range of roles I play on film stem from the range of roles I play in real life.

  Peter Facinelli

  Soccer, Daughter, Mother

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

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• At times, Singer Johnny Cash rubbed dirt from the earth under his fingernails in order to avoid any arrogance which might stem from his fame, by reminding himself of his roots and origins.

  Robert Hilburn

  Order, Class, Roots

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• Oh the Broom, the yellow Broom,
  The ancient poet sung it,
  And dear it is on summer days
  To lie at rest among it.
  I know the realms where people say
  The flowers have not their fellow;
  I know where they shine out like suns,
  The crimson and the yellow.
  I know where ladies live enchained
  In luxury's silken fetters,
  And flowers as bright as glittering gems
  Are used for written letters.
  But ne'er was flower so fair as this,
  In modern days or olden;
  It groweth on its nodding stem
  Like to a garland golden.

  Mary Howitt

  Summer, Lying, Flower

  Mary Botham Howitt, “The Broom Flower”

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• I have always had a very natural connection to the water, and that connection stems from the ocean itself.

  Aaron Peirsol

  Ocean, Water, Connections

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think that support of this [stem cell] research is a pro-life pro-family position. This research holds out hope for more than 100 million Americans.

  Orrin Hatch

  Life, Hope, Science

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• In its most primitive form, life is, therefore, no longer bound to the cell, the cell which possesses structure and which can be compared to a complex wheel-work, such as a watch which ceases to exist if it is stamped down in a mortar. No, in its primitive form life is like fire, like a flame borne by the living substance;-like a flame which appears in endless diversity and yet has specificity within it;-which can adopt the form of the organic world, of the lank grass-leaf and of the stem of the tree.

  Martinus Beijerinck

  Life, Science, Fire

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• Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Flower, Punishment, Fruit

  "Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• I do think it is very important that the religious communities do try to bring their teachings and their insights to bear on the stem cell debate and on the debate about genetic engineering.

  Michael Sandel

  Religious, Teaching, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Views, Point Of View, Syria

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• The foundations of liberty are private property and the rule of law; this system guarantees the fewest possible forms of injustice, produces the greatest material and cultural progress, most effectively stems violence and provides the greatest respect for human rights. According to this concept of liberalism, freedom is a single, unified concept. Political and economic liberties are as inseparable as the two sides of a medal.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Rights, Law, Two Sides

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