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

  Jules Renard

  Love, Inspirational, Valentines Day

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• If we empty our hearts of self God will fill them with His love.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Love, God, Faith

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “Strengthen My Spirit”, p.133, Barbour Publishing

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

  David Byrne

  Filling In, Dots

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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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• For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.

  Plutarch

  Thinking, Technology, Mind

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.1913, Delphi Classics

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• Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Life, Meaningful, Food

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.160, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity he is continually informing and filling some other body.

  John Keats

  Poetry, Identity, Literature

  John Keats (1994). “The Works of John Keats: With an Introduction and Bibliography”, p.9, Wordsworth Editions

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• Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

  Rebecca West

  Space, Challenges, Journalism

  New York Herald Tribune 22 Apr. 1956, sec. 6, p. 2

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• Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Food, Lovely, May

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• In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

  John Steinbeck

  Anger, Wrath, Vintage

  John Steinbeck (1990). “Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath”, p.22, Penguin

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• If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.

  James Taylor

  Shoes, Six, Boring

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

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• I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination

  Daphne Zuniga

  Art, Imagination, Filling In

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• The Bush administration did stop filling the reserve in 2002 when it helped the oil industry. Now they should do it to help the consumer.

  Ron Wyden

  Oil, Administration, Helping

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• If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Education, Book

  Jane Austen (2009). “Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes”, Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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• We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Dec 09, 2015

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• If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories.

  Scott Hahn

  Faith, Christian, Spiritual

  Scott Hahn (2009). “Signs of Life: 40 Catholic Customs and Their Biblical Roots”, p.91, Image

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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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• All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.

  Billy Graham

  Life, Sympathy, Encouraging

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.119, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart, so that it cannot be easy till it is doing something for Jesus Christ.

  George Whitefield

  Faith, God, Christian

  George Whitefield (1771). “The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A...: Containing All His Sermons and Tracts which Have Been Already Published: with a Select Collection of Letters... Also, Some Other Pieces on Important Subjects, Never Before Printed; Prepared by Himself for the Press; to which is Prefixed, an Account of His Life, Compiled from His Orignial Papers and Letters”, p.47

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• Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called "the rejoicing of hope" (Hebrews 3:6).

  William Gurnall

  Christian, Hope, Laughter

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