Errands Quotes

• Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.

  Red Skelton

  Funny, Running, Laughter

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• You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand

  Woodrow Wilson

  Spiritual Vision, Achievement, World Vision

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.15, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we're scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don't have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.

  Michelle Obama

  Jobs, Women, Eye

  "Encouraging Quotes from Michelle Obama", www.beliefnet.com.

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• I walk wherever my errands take me.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Take Me, Walks

  "Thinking on Her Feet / Author Rebecca Solnit wrote a book about walking -- while on the move" by Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. May 02, 2000.

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• I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Prayer, Praying, Has Beens

  Samuel Rutherford (1818). “Joshua redivivus, or, three hundred and fifty-two religious letters: to which is added a testimony to the convenanted work of Reformation between 1638 and 1649”, p.148

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• I love being home, reading the paper in the morning and having a cup of coffee, doing laundry, going grocery shopping and running daily errands. For me, it's important to have that balance in my life.

  Tristan Prettyman

  Running, Morning, Coffee

  Source: www.roomthirteen.com

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  You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.15, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.

  Michelle Obama

  Jobs, Balance, Needs

  "Encouraging Quotes from Michelle Obama", www.beliefnet.com.

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• True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

  Henry James

  Happiness, Self, Inner Peace

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.159, Delphi Classics

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• I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.

  Vanessa Paradis

  Running, Home, House

  "Vanessa Paradis, Romain Duris & Director Pascal Chaumeil Interview HEARTBREAKER". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. September 7, 2010.

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• We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Positive Thinking, Spiritual Vision

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• I really enjoy not getting in a car and running errands on bikes.

  Stone Gossard

  Running, Car, Enjoy

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• Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.

  Olivier Sarkozy

  Stupid, Creating, Debt

  "Jack Welch Gives 'Em Hell At Vf/bloomberg Panel" by Mike Hogan, www.vanityfair.com. May 29, 2009.

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• Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro.

  James Howell

  Political, Soul, Ambassadors

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• I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I’ve never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the hero’s errand, because not following her is the hardest thing I’ve ever done.

  John Green

  Girl, Hero, Home

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.304, A&C Black

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• Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.

  Thomas Beecham

  Writing, Boys, Tunes

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• How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Sweet, Morning, Ambition

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.121, Race Point Publishing

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• Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.

  Yunus Emre

  Boys, Worry, Mines

  Yunus Emre (1989). “The Drop that Became the Sea: Lyric Poems of Yunus Emre”, Shambhala Publications

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• Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.

  Ezra Stiles

  America, Forgotten

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• Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Proof, Should, Difficulty

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.123

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• The Lord’s purposes are often accomplished as we pay heed to the guidance of the Spirit. I believe that the more we act upon the inspiration and impressions which come to us, the more the Lord will entrust to us His errands.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Believe, Inspiration, Purpose

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• The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Boys, Night, People

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

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• I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.

  Jock Sturges

  Desire, Lasts, Shame

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

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• The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Doors, Feet, Poetry

  The Fellowship of the Ring bk. 1, ch. 1 (1954)

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• Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?

  Charles Lamb

  Destiny, Riddle, Shows

  Charles Lamb (1852). “The Works of Charles Lamb”, p.627

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