Gourd Quotes

#1. I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.

N. Scott Momaday

#2. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done.

Henry David Thoreau

#3. While I looked, my inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose; I had a sudden feeling as if I, who never yet truly lived, were at last about to taste life. In that morning my soul grew as fast as Jonah's gourd.

Charlotte Bronte

#4. When a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.

Dorothy Gilman

#5. Traditional Saying (Hawaiian): Only when the water gourd isn't full do you hear it gurgling. (Those who are ignorant have an awful lot to say.)

John Richard Stephens

#6. Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced
true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

Charlotte Bronte

#8. Put a thorn in every enjoyment, a worm in every gourd, that would either prevent my being wholly thine, or in any measure retard my progress in the divine life.

Thomas Cogswell Upham

#9. More highly favoured are we than David in Adullam, or Jonah beneath his gourd, for none can invade or destroy our shelter. The person of Jesus is the quiet resting-place of His people.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#10. In a gourd that had been handed down for three centuries, a flower that would fade in a morning.

Yasunari Kawabata

#11. If you think I'm going to tell my wife she came in second place, you're out of your gourd. I'll convey the apology and not another bloody word.

Johanna Lindsey

#12. HOUSE

Grow high. The devil can't find you.
Grow deep. Buddha can't find you.
Build a house and live there.
Gourd creepers will climb over it,
their flowers dazzling at midnight.

Ko Un

#13. Where, then, is our orator running off to, who was going to speak about a palm, but talks of nothing but a gourd? It started as a wine jar, why does it end as a water jug?

Martin Luther

#14. At that moment there were two feelings inside Celeste's tiny, rapidly beating heart that made her feel as full, and as empty, as a gourd. The sheer beauty of this moment was perfect and sublime. But she was alone.

Henry Cole

#15. Like Jonah, you may lose your gourd, but you cannot lose your God.

Charles Spurgeon

#16. Only Americans think they have rights," Magic Gourd said. "What laws of heaven give you more rights and allow you to keep them? They are words on paper written by men who make them up and claim them. One day they can blow away, just like that." She

Amy Tan

#17. Don't feel sorry for Ed Gourd Graves. Take a broad general view of things and realize that everybody loses everything, and that no man's loneliness can trump another's.

Mike Sauve

#18. The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.

Davy Crockett

#19. Most girls bored me outta my gourd, but this girl was intriguing. Entertaining, even. I didn't faze her, at least not in a positive way. My very presence seemed to make her want to puke, and I found that strangely endearing.

Jamie McGuire

#20. You're afraid to gamble even when you're already dead

Paolo Bacigalupi

#21. You know, when you're real and speak your truth (in respectful ways), people won't always like you. But you'll like you.

Robin Sharma

#22. Don't limit your potential, embrace then accentuate the Power of your Heart's consciousness.

Steven Redhead

#23. One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn't fall apart.

Linda Poindexter

#24. Judging from the array of swords and axes and daggers and bows and other implements of killing and dismemberment that they carried around, she gathered that manual dexterity was an imperative.
The better to kill you with, my dears.

Laini Taylor

#25. I've won not just in MMA but also for the US and let me tell you, the US Greco Roman wrestler is never the guy that's the favorite, not overseas. I'm used to going into hostile countries and competing against the number one guy in their country instead of the number one guy in Chicago.

Joe Warren

#26. The higher a tree wants to rise, the lower its roots must grow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#27. It was the kind of town that made you feel like Humphrey Bogart: you came in on a bumpy little plane, and, for some mysterious reason, got a private room with balcony overlooking the town and the harbor; then you sat there and drank until something happened.

Hunter S. Thompson

#28. I thought, let the best minds of my generation soliloquize about power over some other poor woman's body, I'm off.

Salman Rushdie

#29. Never hesitate to take what you think are small things to God; after all, EVERYTHING is small to God.

Joyce Meyer

#30. Ursula found herself dwelling on Hugh's death, his absence more than his death.

Kate Atkinson

#31. You know, a better man for a better America. That's sort of our slogan.

Bob Dole

#32. Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

Friedrich Durrenmatt