Welcome Quotes - Page 28

• I've seen some movies where people improvise and will say some bizarre phrase they had heard the other day, and unless it's coming directly from character and the moment they're experiencing and driving the movie forward, then it's always welcome.

  Scot Armstrong

  Character, People, Phrases

  Source: www.gq.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our position has never been that people should be forced out of Scouting. We have always said that the values of Scouting are universal they should be welcome to everyone who is willing to live by the Scout oath and the Scout law.

  Gwen Ifill

  Law, People, Should

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.... [The organized moneyed people] are unanimous in their hate for me and I welcome their hatred.... I should like to have it said of my second administration that these forces met their master.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Hate, Government, People

  4 Copy quote

• I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Women, Believe, Heart

  6 Copy quote

• All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go unused, and in every thing, event, and person we would welcome manure, rain, or sunshine.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Rain, Creativity, Sunshine

  6 Copy quote

• Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Thinking, Eggs

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.73, Courier Corporation

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's a man in the world who is never turned down, whatever he chances to stray; he gets the glad hand in the populous town, or out where the farmers makes hay; he's greeted with pleasure on deserts of sand, and deep in the aisles of the woods; wherever he goes there's a welcoming hand-he's the man who delivers the goods.

  Walt Whitman

  Men, Hands, Desert

  11 Copy quote

• Come when the rains
  Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with ice,
  While the slant sun of February pours
  Into the bowers a flood of light. Approach!
  The incrusted surface shall upbear thy steps
  And the broad arching portals of the grove
  Welcome thy entering.

  William C. Bryant

  Rain, Light, Ice

  William Cullen Bryant, “A Winter Piece”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how tender can we bear to be? What good manners can we show as we welcome ourselves and others into our hearts?

  Rebecca Wells

  Heart, Knowing, Missing

  The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood ch. 31 (1996)

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I had a thought, on the way home from the rock field, that the things we don't know about a person are the things that make them human, and it made me feel sad to think that, but sad in that reassuring way that some sadness has, a sadness that says welcome home in twelve different languages.

  Miriam Toews

  Sadness, Home, Thinking

  Miriam Toews (2004). “A Complicated Kindness: A Novel”, A.A. Knopf Canada

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.

  Irving Thalberg

  Talking, Fads, Novelty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you welcome your emotions as teachers,
  every emotion brings good news,
  even the ones that are painful.

  Gary Zukav

  Teacher, News, Emotion

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Jul 04, 2013

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everyone knows there's only one thing less welcome on a stage than a mime, and that's a clown, because everyone knows that clowns eat people.

  Laurie Notaro

  People, Clown, Stage

  Laurie Notaro (2007). “There's a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell: A Novel of Sewer Pipes, Pageant Queens, and Big Trouble”, p.275, Villard

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am fairly certain that my independent, high-spirited grandmother must have had a childhood similar to Betsy Ray'sAs I read about the School Entertainment and ice cream socials, about ladies leaving calling cards and the milkman with his horse-drawn wagon, I felt that I was having an unexpected and welcome peek into Granny's childhood-a gift to me from Maud Hart Lovelace

  Ann M. Martin

  Horse, School, Independent

  5 Copy quote

• Welcome to a new era of marketing and service in which your brand is defined by those who experience it.

  Brian Solis

  Marketing, Eras, Brands

  Twitter post from Feb 17, 2017

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• And my experience in the music scene had shown me that there were places for places in the world where misfits were welcome.

  John Elder Robison

  World, Misfits, Scene

  John Elder Robison (2010). “Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's”, p.96, Random House

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• How unhappy are you that your dishwasher has replaced washing dishes by hand, your washing machine has displaced washing clothes by hand or your vacuum cleaner has replaced hand cleaning? My guess is this ‘job displacement’ has been very welcome, as will the ‘job displacement’ that will occur over the next 10 years. This is a good thing. Everyone wants more jobs and less work.

  Hal Varian

  Jobs, Hands, Years

  15 Copy quote

• Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the policy was made for corrupt purposes, I reject it.

  P. Chidambaram

  Criticism, Purpose, Made

  "A Conversation With: P. Chidambaram". Interview with Jim Yardley, india.blogs.nytimes.com. October 8, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Welcome as the flowers in May.

  Walter Scott

  Thank You, Flower, May

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 867-68, 1922.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Hospitality is the practice of God's welcome by reaching across difference to participate in God's actions bringing justice and healing to our world in crisis.

  Letty M. Russell

  Healing, Our World, Practice

  Letty M. Russell (2009). “Just Hospitality: God's Welcome in a World of Difference”, p.19, Westminster John Knox Press

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• We feel very honored to have been offered the responsibility to host this great event, Berlin is a wonderful city that is developing at a tremendous rate, and this decision means that we can now prepare to welcome the world's best athletes to a fascinating place.

  Otto Schily

  Athlete, Mean, Responsibility

  7 Copy quote

• Soup is to the meal, what the hostesses smile of welcome is to the party. A prelude to the goodness to come.

  Louis Pullig De Gouy

  Food, Party, Soup

  Louis Pullig De Gouy (1949). “The Soup Book: 770 Recipes”, p.11, Courier Corporation

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Solving problems should be a joy, a welcome challenge to our creativity.

  Deepak Chopra

  Creativity, Joy, Challenges

  9 Copy quote

• He's easily the most well-adjusted former child star in the room, please welcome... Jason Bateman.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Stars, Children, Jason

  " 'Hollywood's best and whitest, sorry ... brightest': the best Oscars 2015 quotes" by Lanre Bakare, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2015.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you allow people to treat you like a doormat, they will expect you to say WELCOME.

  Robert Breault

  People, Treats, Doormat

  14 Copy quote