Top 22 Engendering Quotes

#1. In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#2. I really, really wanted to write. I loved language. I loved literature. I loved reading. I never read a foreign language, I'm afraid, but I loved Flaubert. I loved the 19th-century classics. I love Thomas Hardy. I wanted to be a goof on a bus, but I wanted to write more.

Robert Stone

#3. The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

Aesop

#4. I believe if you want to be trusted, you have to trust first. If you do that, you will be betrayed sometimes. But the value of engendering trust is greater than the cost of being betrayed sometimes.

Mark Leslie

#5. The tea, once it arrived, had its customary effect - engendering comfort and loosening the tongue. That's tea for you, thought Sophronia, the great social lubricant.

Gail Carriger

#6. And people still laugh about as much as they ever did, despite their shrunken brains. If a bunch of them are lying around on a beach, and one of them farts, everybody else laughs and laughs, just as people would have done a million years ago.

Kurt Vonnegut

#7. Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators.

Noam Chomsky

#8. The fall or scrapping of a cultural world puts us all into the same archetypal cesspool, engendering nostalgia for earlier conditions.

Marshall McLuhan

#9. Storytelling has always been at the heart of being human because it serves some of our most basic needs: passing along our traditions, confessing failings, healing wounds, engendering hope, strengthening our sense of community.

Parker J. Palmer

#10. So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

Henry George

#11. When I was taught the Gyokko Ryu Koshijutsu Kihon Gata, there were in this engendering of
fundamental form the eight methods. *I was told that this kihon happo is the origin of all budo.
So I say to you earnestly, you make this the basis and teach it to your students.

Toshitsugu Takamatsu

#12. The secret to wisdom is curiosity.

Yoshiko Uchida

#13. I kind of treat myself like the audience. I don't like being lectured.

Patrick Wang

#14. Happiness is Homemade!

Carsten K. Rath

#15. I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads.

William Shakespeare

#16. Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams.

Ivan Chtcheglov

#17. It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#18. And in the man too there is motherhood, it seems to me, physical and mental; his engendering is also a kind of birthing, and it is birthing when he creates out of his innermost fullness.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#19. He had it now, he thought. What he had been searching for till now: the heart of it, the central, engendering event.

Damon Galgut

#20. Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.

Marc Bekoff

#21. Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes.

Thomas De Quincey

#22. The word communist, of course, has become a rallying cry for certain people here just as the word Jew was in Hitler's Germany, a way of arousing emotion without engendering thought.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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