Top 100 Emerson's Quotes

#1. Your father is proud of us for having a
baby."
Gabriel nodded, as he continued brushing.
"That means he's proud of us for having sex and you for impregnating me. Do you think they make T-shirts for grandfathers that express those sentiments?

Sylvain Reynard

Emerson's Quotes #12045
#2. I will learn from everyone and be no one's disciple.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #31998
#3. I had refused Emerson's well-meant offers of assistance, knowing his efforts would be confined to moving the furniture to the wrong places and demanding how much longer the process would take.

Elizabeth Peters

Emerson's Quotes #35327
#4. You never know how you look through other people's eyes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #36434
#5. There's a lot of terminology, like "washes whiter than snow," and these things which when they're said in a uniracial congregation, they just go fine. But when they're said in a mixed congregation, some people will get offended and wonder, "Why are you saying that? What are you saying?"

Michael Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #45845
#6. (Emerson's) aphorisms tend to be chicken soup for the academic soul or gobledygook of a man who prefers the sounds of words to their meanings.

Micah Mattix

Emerson's Quotes #48145
#7. I never dreamed that I would hear 10,000 people screaming when I stepped out onto a stage. Well, that's not entirely true. I dreamed about it but in a performing-on-the-stage-at-Staples-Center-or-Madison-Square-Garden context. But never in a I'm-in-a-movie-that-hasn't-even-come-out-yet one.

Jacqueline Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #84165
#8. Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #90592
#9. It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #98007
#10. Yeah, it's funny, working on a show with as large a cast as we have here, your work gets sort of compartmentalized. There's still about half the cast that I've never had a scene with but I have missed working with Terry.

Michael Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #100807
#11. The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,
faint copies of an invisible archetype.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #103579
#12. Earth's a howling wilderness,
Truculent with fraud and force.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #106752
#13. Downsides, yeah, and when there are more downsides when churches first start - they go through stages of transforming to becoming multiracial. So in the beginning stages there's often a lot of pain, a lot of confusion, a lot of people leave.

Michael Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #117784
#14. A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #133037
#15. Why do we allow people to abuse their children? Why don't we defend the sick and the weak? Why do we let soldiers round up our neighbors and make them wear a star on their clothing and cram them into boxcars? It isn't God who's evil-it's us.

Sylvain Reynard

Emerson's Quotes #133555
#16. My garden is a forest ledge
Which older forest s bound;
The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge,
Then plunge to depths profound!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #142572
#17. We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #145018
#18. If I were to taste your mouth now, I couldn't answer for the consequences. So I can only adore this beautiful neck. I know that in a few seconds I will have to pull away, before the temptation becomes too much. It's too much already. You have no idea how much I want you.

Sylvain Reynard

Emerson's Quotes #148175
#19. As the U.S. trade deficit, and the portion of that deficit attributed to China, continue to grow, our own economy is at risk of losing its reputation as a leader in world trade.

Jo Ann Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #168910
#20. Poets should be law-givers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the day's work.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #172777
#21. The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes.

Emerson Fittipaldi

Emerson's Quotes #182465
#22. Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #189173
#23. It's the sad fact of how race still works in our country. We find that over and over again.

Michael Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #192911
#24. A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #202046
#25. I think it's pretty dynamic. There's a lot of energy there and life, and you'll have women dressed in their traditional African dress when they come, and you have people from all over the place, and some people have headphones on because they're listening in Spanish.

Michael Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #202540
#26. I am the owner of the sphere,
Of the seven stars and the solar year,
of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain,
Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #202927
#27. Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #205913
#28. A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #216184
#29. Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is nature's joke, and therefore literature's. True prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #220305
#30. We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #224557
#31. Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar's dinner, from a hundred charities?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #234002
#32. A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #244467
#33. A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #247396
#34. In your actor's heart, you know when you're playing well. Others may not always agree with you, but I'm always aware of when the scene is cooking or not. You have an instinct about that from years of doing scenes and plays, and I think it stands you in good stead even in the TV world.

Michael Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #252943
#35. Traveling is a fool's paradise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #273456
#36. The rhyme of the poet
Modulates the king's affairs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #273789
#37. Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #295734
#38. What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #298099
#39. Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #322489
#40. In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the green grass.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #324822
#41. A key U.S. initiative in this trade war must be to develop reliable trading partners in the world.

Jo Ann Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #331822
#42. Michael Emerson is just a prince. There's something about him. He's so sweet. I don't know how to describe it. There's something about him that's a bit royal.

Sarah Shahi

Emerson's Quotes #335386
#43. He had gone to the higher Sierras ... [about Ralph Waldo Emerson's death]

John Muir

Emerson's Quotes #337058
#44. In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #350468
#45. Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #353065
#46. To laugh often and love much ... to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self ... this is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #356242
#47. Say to them, O father, O mother, O wife, O brother, O friend, I have lived with you after appearances hitherto. Henceforward I am the truth's.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #357849
#48. I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #359831
#49. My body screams to stride over to her, wrap my arms around her waist, kiss her until she's drunk on me and slowly remove every article of clothing on her body.

Katie McGarry

Emerson's Quotes #365817
#50. Night-dreams trace on Memory's wall Shadows of the thoughts of day, And thy fortunes, as they fall, The bias of the will betray.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #375446
#51. [A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #385834
#52. By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to every one its own name and not another's, thereby rejoicing the intellect, which delights in detachment or boundary.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #396035
#53. Music is the poor man's Parnassus.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #406620
#54. So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #407632
#55. As Emerson said: 'Character is higher than intellect.

Robin S. Sharma

Emerson's Quotes #409449
#56. A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #415395
#57. Noah?
A welcome voice - not my mother's, but welcome all the same: Echo. A smile spread across my face. This was too good. Me in a towel, alone in the house with my nymph. I left the bathroom.

Katie McGarry

Emerson's Quotes #425247
#58. What's happening is that Asian and Latino and other groups without that history are more likely to end up in either black churches or white churches and then make them multiracial churches. I talk about that in the US we have two cultures.

Michael Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #434837
#59. But what we found in the study is that churches are ten times less diverse than the neighborhoods they sit in. So there's something more going on than just reflecting the neighborhood, yeah.

Michael Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #438040
#60. Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger lies in the way of duty, knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny. If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #438743
#61. The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #439377
#62. In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #442586
#63. The way we view the world, the ultimate barometer of quality is: if it gets shared, it's quality.

Emerson Spartz

Emerson's Quotes #442840
#64. Mrs. Carstairs is terribly excited about being aboard this particular ship, as it is the Titanic's maiden voyage, and she is suppose to be the largest ever built.

Ellen Emerson White

Emerson's Quotes #442984
#65. I am super awkward at social situations in general, and there's some major stuff going down, so I'm not going to hold to any sort of societal standard, and I'm just going to pretend like we've known each other long enough to say what's on our mind, and I hope that's okay.

Myra McEntire

Emerson's Quotes #451857
#66. A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #452814
#67. The condition of true naming, on the poet's part, is his resigning himself to the divine aura which breathes through forms, and accompanying that.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #459637
#68. Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over-weight that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good to his own; but when they see it proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life itself, there is no limit to their admiration.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #462652
#69. We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when the boy grows to a man, and is master of the house, he pulls down that wall and builds it new and bigger.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #464976
#70. In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #465257
#71. You are the most frustrating person ever! Don't you understand? It's not that I thought you were cheating on me. It's that YOU WERE MINE! Not his. MINE, EMERSON! But in your time of need, you chose someone else over me.

Kimberly Lauren

Emerson's Quotes #468953
#72. Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #475463
#73. There's a lot of life there, but it's a different sort, because there's a lot less immigrants and a lot more racial, the mix of black and white in particular. I've actually never been to their worship for an extended period of time, so I can't comment wisely on it.

Michael Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #477090
#74. Whatever it is, it's better in the wind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #485135
#75. Emerson has said, "When half-gods go, the gods arrive." That is a very doubtful maxim. Better say, "When God arrives (and only then) the half-gods can remain." Left to themselves they either vanish or become demons.

C.S. Lewis

Emerson's Quotes #486537
#76. We must be our own before we can be another's.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #489188
#77. That's the point of words. They get around.

Kevin Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #503338
#78. The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized. Man's culture can spare nothing, wants all material. He is to convert all impediments into instruments, all enemies into power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #516999
#79. Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #530560
#80. As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #533090
#81. Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon "flat" and "weak" negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable; your negative may be first-rate, and probably is if he does not approve of it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #541005
#82. A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #560290
#83. It's a luxury to be understood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #563353
#84. But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #563368
#85. I discovered Emerson's soporific qualities by falling asleep with my face in the book, drooling all over an essay called 'Self-Reliance' ...

Ransom Riggs

Emerson's Quotes #574054
#86. Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #574561
#87. Who are the farmer's servants? ... Geology and Chemistry, the quarry of the air, the water of the brook, the lightning of the cloud, the castings of the worm, the plough of the frost.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #576140
#88. I may have to shop with them. But on Sunday I don't want to have to worship with them. I want to be able to just be myself and let my hair down. It's also, of course, as we know, the seat of political organization and the affirming of your blackness and so on.

Michael Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #581392
#89. There are roles that are terrifying because they're large or you may feel that they're out of your line, but I'm never terrified once the actual work begins. Once you begin rehearsal, then it's small building blocks. It's solving little problems one at a time.

Michael Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #596052
#90. How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #611796
#91. When it's dark enough men see stars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #620681
#92. There's always the question of time. Does time at 10:00 mean 10:00 sharp? Or does it mean give or take a few minutes? And a few minutes, is that plus or minus two minutes? Or plus or minus ten, or maybe a half an hour each way?

Michael Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #624282
#93. People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #631581
#94. One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation.

Michael Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #632343
#95. If Love his moment overstay,
Hatred's swift repulsions play.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #632682
#96. No matter what your reality looks like, you're the girl I'm in love with today, and the same girl I'll be in love with tomorrow and all the days after that. Not just because of who you are, but because of who you were.
It's all part of your story, Em. And I want to be a part of your story, too.

Myra McEntire

Emerson's Quotes #639411
#97. "Hi, Isaiah. How are you doing, Beth?" Echo asked.
Beth took a long draw off her cigarette, glaring at Echo. Standing her ground, Echo stared back, pretending Beth's fury didn't matter to her. Pride flooded my body.

Katie McGarry

Emerson's Quotes #647463
#98. Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #648308
#99. You know a lot about math," I said. You know a lot about math? What type of statement was that? Right along the lines of "Hey, you have hair and it's red and curly." Real smooth.

Katie McGarry

Emerson's Quotes #653321
#100. I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson's Quotes #658751

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