Carpenter Quotes - Page 7

• One reason there are so many unhappy Christians is they feel God should be doing them favors and heaping upon them material rewards and benefits, rather than working as a Carpenter to shape their lives back into His own image.

  Jamie Buckingham

  Christian, Unhappy, Benefits

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• So now, how did God produce this world?... The fable is that he breathed upon us. In his breath, his wind, came moisture and things began to grow... a message of hope. Nothing physical. How do you intend for your breath to become a work of art? The only way I can see it is that you prevent your breath from becoming a structure. As soon as your breath takes on the form of a room, you are a carpenter; you're not God.

  Milton Resnick

  Art, Wind, Moisture

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• My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple. [Other] Japanese restaurants … mix in some other style of food and call it influence, right? I don't like that. … In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much. 'This fish from there,' 'This very expensive.' Same thing, start singing. And a lot have that fish case in front of them, cannot see what chef do. I'm not going to hide anything, right?

  Masa Takayama

  Jobs, Simple, Thinking

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• An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: "There is very little difference between one man and another; but what little there is, is very important." This distinction seems to me to go to the root of the matter.

  William James

  Men, Roots, Differences

  William James (2010). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.284, The Floating Press

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• Whatever it is, if you draw, you paint, you're a carpenter, you play football, the more you do it, you're a journalist, the more stories you write, the more people you interview and navigate your way through these different personalities to get your story, the better you're going to get at it. Acting's no different.

  Tom Sizemore

  Football, Writing, Play

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• But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build. Twice I have so simply declared myself, have possessed the enemy, eaten the enemy, have taken on his craft, his magic.

  Anne Sexton

  Suicide, Taken, Magic

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'd have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I'd just add it to all the other things I am: jazz musician, carpenter, architect, engineer and revolutionary.

  Bobby Seale

  America, Musician, Add

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• The problem with our churches today is that the lead pastor is some sissy boy who wears cardigan sweaters, has The Carpenters dialed in on his iPod, gets his hair cut at a salon instead of a barber shop, hasn’t been to an Ultimate Fighting match, works out on an elliptical machine instead of going to isolated regions of Russia like in Rocky IV in order to harvest lumber with his teeth, and generally swishes around like Jack from Three’s Company whenever Mr. Roper was around.

  Mark Driscoll

  Fighting, Cutting, Boys

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• In the race for wealth, a neighbor tries to outdo his neighbor, but this strife is good for men. For the potter envies potter, and the carpenter the carpenter, and the beggar rivals the beggar, and the singer the singer.

  Hesiod

  Men, Race, Envy

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• [President George W.] Bush - never mind his well-crafted set speeches; listen to him as he leans on a lectern, chatting to an audience of carpenters - is completely comfortable being himself, a skill still eluding Gore in his 55th year.

  George Will

  Years, Skills, Mind

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• Jesus was a pothead- long hair, beard, sandals, carpenter- do the math it all adds up. Living with twelve guys with no visible means of support.

  Ralphie May

  Jesus, Mean, Math

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• I explained we lost the porch to the flood. Father hasn't gotten around to rebuilding it, although he's quite a good carpenter. He says if Jesus was a carpenter, its good enough for a clergyman. But I don't remember that Jesus let his house fall down.

  Franny Billingsley

  Jesus, Father, Fall

  Franny Billingsley (2011). “Chime”, p.20, Penguin

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• A few ideas seem to be agreed upon. Help none but those who help themselves. Educate only at schools which provide in some form for industrial education. These two points should be insisted upon. Let the normal instruction be that men must earn their own living, and that by the labor of their hands as far as may be. This is the gospel of salvation for the colored man. Let the labor not be servile, but in manly occupations like that of the carpenter, the farmer, and the blacksmith.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Education, School, Men

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• Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Buddhist, Arrows

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• Suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build.

  Anne Sexton

  Suicide, Special, Tools

  "Wanting to Die" l. 7 (1966)

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• Any instructions?” Carpenter said. “Yeah,” Shane said. “Shoot anybody who looks at Agnes funny. And anybody else you don’t like. I’m getting tired of this shi*.” “Somebody needs a hug,” Carpenter said. “Humor,” Shane said. “Har.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Tired, Hug, Needs

  Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer (2008). “Agnes and the Hitman”, p.189, Macmillan

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• John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.

  Mark Sheppard

  Teacher, Jesus, Plato

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• Men are tending to materialism. Houses, lands, and worldly goods attract their attention, and as a mirage lure them on to death. Christianity, on the other hand leads only the natural body to death, and for the spirit, it points out a house not built with hands, eternal in the heavens... Let me urge you to follow Him, not as the Nazarene, the Man of Galilee, the carpenter's son, but as the ever living spiritual person, full of love and compassion, who will stand by you in life and death and eternity.

  James A. Garfield

  Spiritual, Son, Men

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• A broken heart is merely an empty manger. Invite the Virgin and the carpenter to pray beside you. Invite the Savior to dwell there.

  Mark Hart

  Heart, Broken, Praying

  Mark Hart (2017). “Unleashing the Power of Scripture: A Guide for Catholics”, p.50, The Word Among Us Press

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• My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.

  Jim Evans

  Summer, Dad, Night

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• My dad is a carpenter, a joiner, and I used to watch him make things. So I always imagined that I'd do something where I made things, too. I was really more interested in architecture growing up because I would work with my dad on houses.

  Christopher Bailey

  Growing Up, Dad, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The work element comes into it as well - how much you train and how much work you put into your craft, in the same way a carpenter would perhaps work under a great teacher, etc.

  Paul Rankin

  Teacher, Elements, Crafts

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• The dragonets found the carpenters to be even more fascinating than the furniture, and followed the poor men from pen to pen, crowding around to watch, tasting the wooden planks, trying to steal the tools. It made for an interesting day for everyone, as the boys tried to keep the dragonets away from the carpenters, and the dragonets tried to get at the carpenters, and the carpenters worked probably a great deal faster than they ever had in their lives, sure that the dragonets would go from tasting the wood to tasting them.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Men, Boys, Interesting

  Mercedes Lackey (2005). “Alta: Joust #2”, p.170, Penguin

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• There is here, what is not in the old country. In spite of hard, unfamiliar things, there is here - hope. In the old country, a man can be no more than his father, providing he works hard. If his father was a carpenter, he may be a carpenter. He many not be a teacher or a priest. He may rise - but only to his father's state. In the old country, a man is given to the past. Here he belongs to the future. In this land, he may be what he will, if he has the good heart and the way of working honestly at the right things.

  Betty Smith

  Country, Teacher, Father

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• As I've gotten old I've really listened to a wide spectrum of music, whether it's The Carpenters, Stevie Wonder, Justin Timberlake, Jay-Z or Lauryn Hill. I've kinda' run the gamut, and in listening to so many different styles, you come to take bits and pieces from all of it.

  Brooklyn Sudano

  Running, Style, Listening

  Source: www.flowinsiders.com

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