Tied Quotes - Page 7

• Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Independent, Garden

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.62, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.

  Lionel Barrymore

  Hands, Feet, Hollywood

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm of the mind that life is a risk. Every time you leave your house it's a risk, and I see no reason to go through life with my hands tied behind my back for any reason. I'd be foolish to let something stop me from doing what I love to do.

  Thomas Jane

  Hands, House, Risk

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• The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants .

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Tree, Lines, Lasts

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Harold Bloom (2009). “Gabriel Garci ́a Ma ́rquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.30, Infobase Publishing

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• Bluebell, you couldn’t take me if I was blindfolded and had both hands tied behind my back.” “Bluebell?” Illium narrowed his eyes. “That’s it, Barbarian.

  Nalini Singh

  Eye, Hands, Barbarians

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Angels' Dance”, p.36, Penguin

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• Each life has a different purpose, and some people can find their purpose more easily than others. The key, the most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice" "No matter why you're here, no matter why any of us are here, you're never tied down to fate. You're never locked in. You make your own choices, Kira, and you can't let anyone ever take that away from you.

  Dan Wells

  Fate, Keys, People

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• The morning air was like a new dress. That made her feel the apron tied around her waist. She untied it and flung it on a low bush beside the road and walked on, picking flowers and making a bouquet… From now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Morning, Flower, Air

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.41, University of Illinois Press

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• Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as signs of triumph, just as Irish heroes had once tied to their waists their enemies' heads. Where they went they brought their love of learning and their skills in bookmaking. In the bays and valleys of their exile, they reestablished literacy and breathed new life into the exhausted literary culture of Europe. And that is how the Irish saved civilization.

  Thomas Cahill

  Book, Hero, Europe

  FaceBook post by Thomas Cahill from Mar 07, 2015

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• me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth. I know it sucks, but in a way, it's good....Love and truth being tied together, I mean. They make each other possible, you know?

  John Green

  Good Love, Mean, Together

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• This is what happens: somebody—girl usually—got a free spirit, doesn't get on too good with her parents. These kids, they're like tied-down helium balloons. They strain against the string and strain against it, and then something happens, and that string gets cut, and they just float away. And maybe you never see the balloon again . . . Or maybe three or four years from now, or three or four days from now, the prevailing winds take the balloon back home . . . But listen, kid, that string gets cut all the time.

  John Green

  Girl, Kids, Home

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• For a split second I felt as though she was nobody special in the larger scheme of my life. She was just some girl who had tied me to her leg to help her sink when she jumped off the bridge. Then I blinked and was in love with her again.

  Miranda July

  Girl, Bridges, Special

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• Happiness is so awfully complicated, but freedom isn't. You're either tied down or you're not.

  Paula McLain

  Complicated

  Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.210, Ballantine Books

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• It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Night, Silence, Research

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• To get back to the real substance of all things, you must get back into the thought world. Until one knows that the thought-energy is the cause of which is back of all things, and the product only the effect, then he is tied to the effect and is limited by it.

  Walter Russell

  Real, Secret, Energy

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• What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister? Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn And tied her with fences and dragged her down

  Jim Morrison

  Knives, Dawn, Done

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• If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is tied up with mine, then let us work together.

  Lilla Watson

  Work, Volunteer, Community

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• They whipped us like a tied up goat.

  Spike Dykes

  Football, College, Goats

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• As a matter of fact I could beat you two with both my arms and my legs tied. I'll roll down this ramp and score myself a 7-10 idiot split!

  Chris Jericho

  Wrestling, Two, Legs

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• A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Self, Becoming

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• Maybe I want to be tied down and forced to admit it

  Lora Leigh

  Want, Down And

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• We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery.

  Carl Sagan

  Discovery, Self, Events

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.348, Ballantine Books

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• He was losing her incrementally. It might be a few stray hairs listless on the pillow, or the crescents of bitten fingernails tossed behind the headboard, or a dark shape dissolving in soap. As a net is no more than holes tied together, they were bonded by what was no longer there." (ARC p. 63)

  Anthony Marra

  Dark, Hair, Together

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• You had me tied in knots. You saved Belen's life, and I wanted to kill and thank you all at the same time. And during those nights when we didn't know if you'd live or die, I went from being angry, to worried to frustrated to scared all within a single heartbeat. If you had die, I would have killed you.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Night, Frustrated, Scared

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• It’s funny how the good things are all tied up with the bad. Sometimes it’s hard to tell which is which. But either way, you end up taking your sugar with your salt and your kicks with your kisses.

  Kami Garcia

  Kissing, Sugar, Way

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• love is tied to truth. I think of them as unhappily conjoined twins.

  David Levithan

  Love Is, Thinking, Twins

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.81, Penguin

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