Filling Quotes

• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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• My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

  Graham Greene

  Typewriters, Hands, Two

  International Herald Tribune, October 07, 1977.

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• Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

  Dave Barry

  Coffee, Ice Cream, Cake

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• When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christmas, Gratitude, Children

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• Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Inspirational, Music, Fun

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• Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

  Jules Renard

  Love, Inspirational, Valentines Day

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• Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Love, Life, Heart

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2016). “Nathaniel Hawthorne: Collected Novels: Scarlet Letter / House of Seven Gables / Blithedale Romance / Fanshawe / Marble Faun: Library of America #10”, p.343, Library of America

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• Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.

  David Byrne

  Filling In, Dots

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• You are not just here to fill space or be a background character in someone else's movie. Consider this: nothing would be the same if you did not exist. Every place you have ever been and everyone you have ever spoken to would be different without you. We are all connected, and we are all affected by the decisions and even the existence of those around us.

  David Niven

  Movie, Healing, Character

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• Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of gratitude. I now allow this gratitude to fill my heart, my body, my mind, my consciousness, my very being. This gratitude radiates out from me in all directions, touching everything in my world, and returns to me as more to be grateful for. The more gratitude I feel, the more I am aware that the supply is endless.

  Louise Hay

  Life, Motivational, Gratitude

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Nov 23, 2011

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• It's your life... why not fill it with as much joy as possible?

  Bonnie St. John

  Life, Women, Empowering

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• Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

  David Rockefeller

  Maintaining The Status Quo, Innovation, Needs

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

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• You keep running after the love of the people, but you’ll never get it. And what you do get, will never be enough. The hole inside you is too big. You see, it was made by God, for God. How could anything less fill it?

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Love, Inspirational, God

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• For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

  Plutarch

  Inspirational, Mind, Needs

  Plutarch (2006). “Essays”, p.70, Penguin UK

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• If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out.

  Alberto Juantorena

  Athlete, Filling Up, Years

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• Marijuana is like Coors beer. If you could buy the damn stuff at a Georgia filling station, youd decide you wouldnt want it.

  Billy Carter

  Beer, Marijuana, Want

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• When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it with purpose and productivity, it lives on forever.

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson

  Opportunity, Forever, Inspire

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• I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.

  Carl Sandburg

  Fog, Careers, Literature

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.11, University of Illinois Press

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• The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.

  Andy Rooney

  Music, Careers, Air

  Andy Rooney (2012). “Not That You Asked...”, p.264, Random House

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• We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.

  William T. Wiley

  Kind, Blank, Involved

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• Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records.

  Jim Ramstad

  Years, Records, Hours

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• Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Past, Mind, Use

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• And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take.

  Dolley Madison

  Army, Sister In Law, Filling Up

  Dolley Madison (1886). “Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States”, Boston ; New York, Houghton, Mifflin

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• Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something.

  Jonathan Krohn

  Party, Mean, Shells

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• I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary

  Ed Harris

  Important, Concerned

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