The Small Quotes

Our small acts of faith and service are how most of us can continue in God and eventually bring eternal light and glory to our family, our friends, and our associates.

The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced.

It is in the small things we see it. The child's first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time you rode a bike, wallowing up the sidewalk.

Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.

I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again.

Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.

I believe in striving for excellence. I sweat the big and small stuff! I do not apologize for this.

I set for myself only small goals, goals that are not that far away.

To be a small town kid from Hialeah, Fla., pitching in Miami and representing Team U.S.A., that says it all. It's a kid's dream. Don't pinch me. I don't want to wake up.

But Madonna has a small amount of talent when it comes to movies.

Be nice. (The world is a small town.)

For small businesses to thrive, they require an environment that is conducive for growth.

I would tell myself the same thing that I continue to tell myself today, which is don't sweat the small things.

I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.

I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.

There is no small pleasure in pure water.

Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.

Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic: Those are sort of three layers of repression.

Celebrate small victories often. Mourn failures quickly. Do what's necessary without fanfare.

Any goal can be achieved if you break it down into enough small parts.

I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.

Set a goal, write it down, and release the outcome. Small steps make a big difference.

There are ten thousand people in the United States in a persistent vegetative state. Just enough to start a small town. Think of them as veggie-burghers.

New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.

Holidays are the best. I couldn't imagine being from a small family.

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.

Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.

It's true that what you find in New York is something other than America. Only small towns and small countries are self-satisfied; a real capital goes beyond its borders.

The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions of persons.

It's a small world, but we all run in big circles.

Delia picked at the raw sores of her conscience...Drunk or sober, Delia lived in the small town in her heart, ignoring the world in which all her love had turned to grief.

If you set out to do a good deed, you may do a hundred small kindnesses on the way.

Still on it creeps, Each little moment at another's heels, Till hours, days, years, and ages are made up Of such small parts as these, and men look back Worn and bewilder'd, wondering how it is.

Small minds can never handle great themes.

Everything is explicable in the terms of the behavior of a small child.

You can go to any small town in America, there's going to be a metal fan there. You can't say that about post-rock.

A man without a sense of purpose, even one whose bank accounts are stuffed with money, is always a small man.

America has always been a nation of small places, and as we lose them, we're losing part of ourselves.

Better to have small faith in a great God than to have great faith in a small god.

The path to survival was to never give up on the small things.

Small talk is the biggest talk we do.

All my friends are so small town.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

The marginal tax rate for high income earners is going up. Small businesses are no longer enjoying some of the exemption from payroll tax. Now there will be carbon taxes.

To make a small town achieve its potential, you need everybody. When a blind person carries a crippled person who can see, both of them get where they're going.

I'd rather do theater and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.

I'm a small government conservative.

Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great

Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oasis of America's red states.