19 Tending Quotes for You to Enjoy

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging? Alexander the Great

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. John Keats

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. Abraham Lincoln

Judge Better First Could Tending Know How Where Then

In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally. Cesare Beccaria

Happiness Good Power Oppose Every Society Diffuse Other Extreme Weakness Laws Misery Tending Part Equally Reduce Continually Effort Intent Human Influence Height Human Society Universally

So much luck! I'm not putting myself down, I'm not saying I don't have talent - I must have, to have got this far - but I honestly believe that some of the greatest actors in America are tending bar and waiting tables and driving taxis, and it will never happen for them. John Mahoney

Saying Myself Waiting Will Down Luck Believe Honestly Must Tables Some Tending Never Driving Putting Talent Greatest Got America Happen Bar Them Far Much Actor

If Romney explains why where we are with Obama is unacceptable, why whither we are tending is even worse - and why his own alternative path forward is superior - then we trust the American people to make the right choice in November. Bill Kristol

Trust People Path November Superior Own Worse Unacceptable Obama Tending Make Alternative His American Where Romney Explains American People Then Choice Forward Even Even Worse Why Right Right Choice

I'm not a gardener. I don't have the consistency for gardening, and I have barely enough for an orchard. I don't embarrass myself. You have to be there tending and weeding. With orchards, you can go through negligent periods and recover. Bill Pullman

Myself You Gardening Consistency Enough Embarrass Recover Through Tending Periods Go Orchard Barely Gardener

Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained. Carl Clinton Van Doren

Life Entertained Detail Brought Tending Generally Had Idealized Remote Readers Were Been Historical Familiar Being Succeeded Teach Who

In the past, a great library was the result of librarians functioning as guardians of culture, tending and caring, selecting and recommending works that maintained and nurtured a cultural heritage. David Gerrold

Great Library Culture Result Past Heritage Guardians Caring Nurtured Tending Selecting Maintained Cultural In The Past Works

I mention this fact as tending to support what I have often heard stated, namely, that a shark's sense of smell is so keen that, if men ever bathe in seas where they are found, a shark is almost sure to appear directly afterwards. George Grey

As a warning to parents, I mention that my father preferred me to my brother, which was very injurious to both of us. To me, as tending to produce in my mind a feeling of self-elevation; and to my brother, by creating in him a dislike both towards my father and me. George Muller

Me Father Mind Parents Feeling Brother Both Mention Tending Towards Him Very Which Dislike Preferred Produce Us Creating Warning

I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office. John Boehner

Myself Great Business Soul Heart Waiting School Values Become Nation Ran Saw Out Jobs Tables Great Nation Small Small Business Through Tending Poured Had Put Name How Odd Odd Jobs Shifts Heart And Soul Office Tavern Bar Working Forward Dad Washington Floors Started Night Core Core Values

I am satisfied that our Party and youth league officials are devoting efforts to tending the garden of virtues with all sincerity true to the Party's idea of attaching importance to young people, and highly appreciate them with a warm heart. Kim Jong-un

Heart Youth Garden People Party Young Satisfied Our Virtues Attaching Tending True Idea Highly League Sincerity Importance Am Efforts Officials Young People Them Warm Appreciate

Across much of the developing world, by the time she is 12, a girl is tending house, cooking, cleaning. She eats what's left after the men and boys have eaten; she is less likely to be vaccinated, to see a doctor, to attend school. Nancy Gibbs

Time Cleaning Cooking Doctor World School Men Girl See Eaten Eats Tending Attend Developing Developing World House Likely She Boy Left After Much Across Less By The Time

We are all farmers tending a little part of the Lord's vineyard. Sheri L. Dew

Tending Part Lord Little Farmers Vineyard

I've considered myself a writer since I was 7 years old, but I've done a lot of jobs along the way. I enjoyed waiting tables and tending bar during college, especially when it got busy, so I might like managing a big restaurant. In fact, I might like managing many kinds of businesses or organizations. Tom Reiss

Myself Waiting Old College Big Busy Considered Way Jobs Restaurant Kinds Tables Fact Tending Writer Since Along Like Got Years Lot Done Managing In Fact Bar Might Organizations Businesses Many Enjoyed

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