Gathering Quotes

Hunting and gathering are in my blood. But I've lived long enough to witness a diminution in the seas, and to notice a fragility where once I saw - or assumed - an endless bounty.

The years after the millennium will see gathering conflict all over the world to the point where the United Nations will be overwhelmed.

The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And, while the night is gathering grey, We'll talk its pensive hours away.

I don't have a Twitter account. I don't go to fan club gatherings. I'm not one of those actors who spends a lot of time engaging with the audience.

At Arcueil ... I dined in distinguished company... There was a lot of very interesting discussion. It is these gatherings which are the joy of life.

I'm really enjoying learning new ideas because eventually I want to become a manager myself so I'm gathering all this information from managers now and previously.

Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties.

We are a nation equally afraid of gathering together and being alone.

Death, in its silent sure march is fast gathering those whom I have longest loved, so that when he shall knock at my door, I will more willingly follow.

We need a safe place, a reserve of truth, a place where words kindle ideas and set ideas sparking off in others, a word sanctuary. Poetry is this gathering place of words.

The church is the gathering of God's children, where they can be helped and fed like babies and then guided by her motherly care, grow up to manhood in maturity of faith.

Personal participation is the universal principle of knowing.

Her interest in natural history was confined to observation of the crows' feet gathering around her eyes.

Turkeys are perfect for feeding larger gatherings.

Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.

I like that gathering moment where the music is about to begin, that moment right there. It's like jumping out of an airplane. It's that moment when the lights go out and then you're in it.

Money is just a symbol we use to facilitate te gathering of memories and experiences.

I'm calling for dialogue. I'm gathering attention for dialogue which is what you do in a struggle for power.

I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.

Our Feast gatherings, which has spread all over the world, is attended by young people - and they love to sing worship songs.

I hate people but I love gatherings.

Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.

Do not spend the day in gathering flowers by the way side, lest night come upon you before you arrive at your journey's end, and then you will not reach it.

The original Greek meaning of the word anthology is a collection or gathering of flowers in bloom.

Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind.

And did I pass?" The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left the younger woman said, "You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.

[The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle around gathering votes from recalcitrant citizens.

It’s not just the adage ‘write what you know,’ it’s about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience you’ve collected up to now to help you dive into the things you don’t know.

A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn’t.

The comfortable and comforting people are those who look upon the bright side of life; gathering its roses and sunshine and making the most that happens seem the best.

The dusk was performing its customary intransitive operation of "gathering".

Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.

Old wisdom out of the cluster of gathering shadows.

I think it's time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.

The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft; and gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.

I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the great poets: I read, and I read, and I read.

I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture. In the desert, change is nurtured even in stone by wind, by water, through time.

I witness with pleasure the supreme achievement of memory, which is the masterly use it makes of innate harmonies when gathering to its fold the suspended and wandering tonalities of the past.

It's ironic that this amazing invention of the Internet has made information gathering easier available than ever, but that this platform also helps spread misinformation.

Wisdom in groups is earned by gathering useful data, exploring diverse perspectives, respecting different viewpoints, and then shaped through critical reflection on behalf of tangible outcomes.

A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling.

Now, settle down, settle down. Hell, I'm an old man, it's early in the morning and I'm gathering my thoughts here.

A minister who moves about in society is in a position to read the signs of the times even in a festive gathering, but one who remains shut up in his office learns nothing.

No big league team is having a gathering like this 2 days before the season

The owls are gathering; find out why soon.

Virtually anything is more stimulating than conversations with strangers at social gatherings.

I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news.

Motion is the context of living. We find meaning my and in our doing.