Gather Quotes

Your descendants shall gather your fruits. (Virgil)
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. View quote
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive. View quote
Dale Carnegie
When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees - As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. View quote
John Dryden
There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers. View quote
Gerald Massey
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
A rolling stone can gather no moss. View quote
Publilius Syrus
Gather the flowers, but spare the buds. View quote
Andrew Marvell
Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly I well know whither, And rest I well know where. View quote
Robert Bridges
One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand. (Edward Albee)
Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice of eternity. View quote
William Butler Yeats
we can make our minds so still like water. That beings gather about us to see their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer perhaps even with a fiercer life because of silence. View quote
William Butler Yeats
As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified. View quote
Jack Kevorkian
He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes on the heart of woman. View quote
Jacopo Sannazaro
How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower. View quote
Isaac Watts
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. View quote
Toni Morrison
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
Oh, Brignall banks are wild and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer's queen. View quote
Walter Scott
That's life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it's nothing. If you ask me I don't think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That's enough. (Junot Diaz)
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense. View quote
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. View quote
Thomas Paine
And sometimes when the night is slow The wretched and the meek We gather up our hearts and go A Thousand Kisses Deep. View quote
Leonard Cohen
The growth of New England was a result of the aggregate efforts of a busy multitude, each in his narrow circle toiling for himself, to gather competence or wealth. The expansion of New France was the achievement of a gigantic ambition striving to grasp a continent. It was a vain attempt. View quote
Francis Parkman