Vines Quotes - Page 6

• To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must, first and foremost, be a stranger to them.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Istanbul, Appreciate, Tree

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Istanbul”, p.331, Faber & Faber

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• Taking on all at once Germany, Japan, and Italy - diverse enemies all - did not require the weeding out of all the fascists and their supporters in Mexico, Argentina, Eastern Europe, and the Arab world. Instead, those in jackboots and armbands worldwide quietly stowed all their emblems away as organized fascism died on the vine once the roots were torn out in Berlin, Rome, and Tokyo. So too will the terrorists, once their sanctuaries and capital shrivel up - as is happening as we speak.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Weed, Roots, Japan

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• It takes a fierce devotion to defend your artistic space, and eternal vigilance over it, because the needs of others will grow like vines in your little plot and claim it back for the jungle.

  Judith Ortiz Cofer

  Space, Plot, Needs

  Judith Ortiz Cofer (2000). “Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer”, p.88, University of Georgia Press

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• Plant no tree sooner than the vine.

  Alcaeus

  Tree, Plant

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• I'm definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working - if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Ideas, Tomatoes, Looking Forward

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• Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.

  Naveen Jain

  Giving, Philanthropy, Sustainability

  FaceBook post by Naveen Jain from Nov 12, 2015

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• You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

  Omar Khayyam

  Daughter, Mother, House

  Omar Khayyam, “The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam”

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• I love tearing things out of the ground. I love digging and discarding. I love pruning. In fact, I love pruning so much that I once gave myself carpal-tunnel syndrome because I attacked a trumpet vine with so much dedication.

  Susan Orlean

  Dedication, Tunnels, Digging

  "Prune" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. September 28, 2010.

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• The Hebrew Bible contains multiple provisions to ensure that no one would go hungry. The corners of the field, forgotten sheaves of grain, gleanings that drop from the hands of the gleaner, and small clusters of grapes left on the vine were to be given to the poor.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Hands, Fields, Gleaning

  "Why Fighting Poverty and Hunger Is a Religious Duty" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2013.

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• We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true that that renewal comes at a price, for even if the flower grows from an ancient vine, the flowers of spring are themselves new to the world, untried and untested. The flower that wilted last year is gone. Petals once fallen are fallen forever. Flowers do not return in the spring, rather they are replaced. It is in this difference between returned and replaced that the price of renewal is paid. And as it is for spring flowers, so it is for us.

  Daniel Abraham

  Spring, Lying, Flower

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• Obviously, discipline is necessary for children. Training is necessary for children. Just like if you want to train a vine, you have to apply physical manipulation to get it to go where you want it to go, but as it learns, then you don't have to do that.

  Benjamin Carson

  Children, Discipline, Training

  "Interview with Dr. Ben Carson on Education". TheBestSchools.org Interview, thebestschools.org.

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• Dear Angel Juan, You used to guard my sleep like a panther biting back my pain with the edge of your teeth. You carried me into the dark dream jungle, loping past the hungry vines, crossing the shiny fish-scale river. We left my tears behind in a chiming silver pool. We left my sorrow in the muddy hollows. When I woke up you were next to me, damp and matted, your eyes hazy, trying to remember the way I clung to you, how far down we went. Was the journey too far, Angel Juan? Did we go too far?

  Francesca Lia Block

  Dream, Pain, Sleep

  Francesca Lia Block (2008). “Beautiful Boys: Missing Angel Juan and Baby Be-Bop”, p.17, Zondervan

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• My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather. One such melting occurs in summer rain, at midnight, during the vine-green breathing time right before sleep. You have to ask the right question, throw the right rope bridge, to get there-and then bolt across the chasm between you, before your bridge collapses.

  Karen Russell

  Summer, Rain, Sleep

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• Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again, To scenes by memory's silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho' it sprung From one united heart.

  Alan Cooper

  Dream, Memories, Heart

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• The act of the soul, in surrendering itself into the hands of Christ, forms a connecting bond between Him as the Vine and the soul as the branches, which communicates life, strength, nourishment, and beauty. In a word, with a just view of the character, and a supreme attachment to the person of Christ, the believer yields himself into His hands as a full and complete Saviour. Him he receives; upon Him he rests, and rests for time and eternity.

  Gardiner Spring

  Character, Yield, Attachment

  Gardiner Spring (1813). “Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character”, p.122

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• People got so many questions. Why you got so many questions when my whole life is on the Internet? If you wanna know about me, you can go on the Internet and look at my YouTube videos. I used to drop one every day. You can go on my YouTube channel, go on my Vine, my Twitter.

  Riff Raff

  People, Video, Looks

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• From the great trees the locusts cry
  In quavering ecstatic duo-a boy
  Shouts a wild call-a mourning dove
  In the blue distance sobs-the wind
  Wanders by, heavy with odors
  Of corn and wheat and melon vines;
  The trees tremble with delirious joy as the breeze
  Greets them, one by one-now the oak
  Now the great sycamore, now the elm.

  Hamlin Garland

  Summer, Distance, Boys

  Hamlin Garland (1961). “Boy Life on the Prairie”, p.178, U of Nebraska Press

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• A large bare forehead gives a woman a masculine and defying look. The word "effrontery" comes from it. The hair should be brought over such a forehead as vines are trailed over a wall.

  Leigh Hunt

  Wall, Hair, Giving

  Leigh Hunt (1870). “Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings”, p.146

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• Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn.

  Edmund Burke

  Religious, Cheer, Volcanoes

  Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.417

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• He died right after he retired, and seeing that made me feel more conscious of a man needing a motive to live. If I ever got out of coaching, I would have to get a job somewhere, or I'm afraid I'd wilt on the vine, too.

  Bobby Bowden

  Jobs, Men, Nfl

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• There were many moments in the Vine like that one--where you might think today was yesterday, and yesterday was tomorrow, and so on. Because we all believed we were tragic, and we drank. We had that helpless, destined feeling. We would die with handcuffs on. We would be put a stop to, and it wouldn't be our fault. So we imagined. And yet we were always being found innocent for ridiculous reasons.

  Denis Johnson

  Thinking, Yesterday, Feelings

  Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.32, Macmillan

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• Karma is like the vine that gathers strength through uninterrupted years, and which fastens its tendrils so closely that it is as strong as the structure to which it adheres. There is no way to destroy its power except by the separation of the parts, these parts renew themselves in other forms of life, but the structure is freed when its root is destroyed.

  William Quan Judge

  Karma, Strong, Years

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• The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth the qualities of the great thinker.

  Emmanuel des Essarts

  Food, Cooking, Quality

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• Adrian Rogers told us as often as he could he took the Bible literally. He illustrated by saying he believed the world was created in six 24-hour days. And he repeated this to make an impression upon us. In private (Jerry Vines was with us), I asked Rogers what he did with the slavery passages of the New Testament. Did he take them literally? He paused and said, 'Well, I believe slavery is a much-maligned institution. If we had slavery today, we would not have this welfare mess.'

  Adrian Rogers

  Believe, Slavery Today, World

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• If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If she has been generous and liberal, know that she still expects industry and application on our part, and revenges herself in proportion to our negligent ingratitude. The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds; and instead of vines and olives for the pleasure and use of man, produces, to its slothful owner, the most abundant crop of poisons.

  David Hume

  Weed, Art, Revenge

  David Hume (1817). “Philosophical Essays: On Morals, Literature, and Politics”, p.166

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