Top 100 Greeting Quotes
#1. The great secret in salam is it brings love, tranquility and peace to the person receiving the greeting.
Habib Kadhim Al-Saqqaf
#2. Hebbity bedda," I said, by way of attempting a greeting. My mouth had gone rather numb, and my tongue felt like a lead weight. "Jussa hangonna sayke hee.
Anonymous
#3. We can talk about courage and love and compassion until we sound like a greeting card store, but unless we're willing to have an honest conversation about what gets in the way of putting these into practice in our daily lives, we will never change. Never, ever.
Brene Brown
#4. A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
Maya Angelou
#5. Say from whence You owe this strange intelligence, or why Upon this blasted heath you stop our way With such prophetic greeting. Speak, I charge you.
William Shakespeare
#6. Do not think little of any good deed, even if it is just greeting your brother with a smile.
Muhammad
#7. I have all of the Apple products. Everything I've ever written, I've written on a Mac. My first computer, my roommates and I chipped in, and we got that first Macintosh - 128K. It had as much memory as a greeting card that plays music.
Aaron Sorkin
#8. And he asked for her whole life as simply as he'd ask for a date. And she promised away her whole life as simply as she'd offer a hand in greeting or farewell.
Betty Smith
#9. Hey, honey," I greeted. "What's up?"
"His filthy, rusted, beat up, in desperate need of a trade up truck is still in front of your house, that's what's up," was Martha's greeting
Kristen Ashley
#10. I acknowledged Gabe and his attempts at flight the way a legless child might view a hopeful but misguided parent buying a house full of stairs. After a while, when Gabe offered me a morning greeting, it didn't feel like he was greeting me but rather a giant pair of wings; no girl, just feathers.
Leslye Walton
#11. That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.
George Eliot
#12. I squirrel away sealed greeting cards that people give me so I can open them later when I'm having a bad day.
Emily Procter
#13. She wished she had a set of greeting cards at the ready, but Hallmark probably didn't make any that said Thank you for giving up your life so that me and my friends could escape! It was SO appreciated. XOXO!
Gina Damico
#14. I saw a post the other day, where someone wrote that, when they walk through a library, they touch the spines of all the books they've read , as a way of greeting their favorite characters . . .
Try that with one of my novels, and you'll walk away counting your fingers!
Max Hawthorne
#16. I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had.
Eva Braun
#17. Every day of my life I have been in situations, not just in Mexico, in the US too, in which I identified the form of operation as racism. There are situations in which a smile, a laugh, a greeting are racist exercises.
Bocafloja
#18. If you live in your sense, slowly, with attention, if you use your eyes and your fingertips and your taste buds, then romance is something you'll never need a greeting card to make you remember.
Erica Bauermeister
#19. How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
John Muir
#20. Back in the 1980s when everyone looked a bit off, my friend Tim and his brothers had some publicity shots taken of their band. Eventually they sold the rights to a stock photo agency. Years later, one of the images turned up on a greeting card. The inside said, Greetings from the Dork Club.
Mary Roach
#21. I found religion in the greeting card aisle now i know hallmark was right
Ani DiFranco
#22. Sometimes I feel like a windup doll, like I have to reach behind and turn my golden key to produce a greeting, a laugh, whatever the socially acceptable reaction should be.
Jessica Knoll
#23. It seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year.
Ayn Rand
#24. [Brodsky] loved cats, and sometimes for a greeting would meow.
Sigrid Nunez
#25. The man comes closer. I recognise him. It's Johannes, who teaches rudiments and solfege at the local school. I raise my hand in the notes for greeting and he carves out the response. So crisp and clear I can't help feeling the implied correction of my slumped tones.
Anna Smaill
#26. To grasp the truth is a delicate gesture, like taking a hand in greeting, a lightness of touch is needed if one is to feel the presence of another being.
Susan Griffin
#27. Janeway enters from her office, which on the USS Voyager was called the captain's ready room, and walks slowly through the bridge, greeting each officer in turn.
Kate Mulgrew
#28. I read an anecdote once about a woman from another culture who came to the United States and began to introduce herself as "Busy." It was, after all, the first thing she heard when meeting any American. Hello, I'm Busy - she figured it was part of our traditional greeting,
Kevin DeYoung
#29. A simple word of greeting, an offer of a cup of coffee on me, a smile and a hug will all go a long way toward reconciliation. A listening ear can open a wandering heart to the thought that God still loves them, and there just might be a place still set for them at their Father's table.
Katherine J. Walden
#30. This here is Juan Sweeting, my second," Michael said. "Goes by Ceps." They shook, the man greeting him with a grunt. "How'd you get the name Ceps?" Peter asked. "I haven't heard that before." The man curled his arms, popping a pair of biceps like two large grapefruits.
Justin Cronin
#31. Unlike most other facial signs of emotion, the smile is subject to learning and conscious control. In the U.S., Japan, and many other societies, children are taught to smile on purpose, e.g., in a courteous greeting, whether or not they actually feel happy.
David B. Givens
#32. With or without realizing it, every successful person has created behaviors - systems for greeting people, networking, and making telephone calls to aid them in their pursuits. By observing the traits of successful people, you can create your own system for success.
Ryan Blair
#33. Looking at her, though, was like looking at the hills. The hills stayed as they were. You could go them, if you had the means, but they extended no greeting.
Larry McMurtry
#34. I am at your service, my lady, I said, standing and releasing her hand. For the first time in my life I understood the true purpose of this sort of formal greeting. It gives you a script to follow when you have absolutely no idea what to say.
Patrick Rothfuss
#35. Cicero himself appeared, hand in hand with Tullia, nodding good morning to everyone, greeting each by name ("the first rule in politics, Tiro: never forget a face").
Robert Harris
#36. I'm interested in humor, and greeting cards just happen to be a perfect medium for my message. They're accessible to everyone, and thanks to all the advances that have been made by environmentally conscientious printers, I can get my message across while keeping my carbon footprint relatively small.
Anne Taintor
#37. Carson," she said when she picked up. I liked it. Clear. Concise. To the point.
I decided to try it myself. "Davidson."
A loud sigh filtered to me. "Charley, you called me. You can't just say Davidson."
"What are you, the phone greeting police?
Darynda Jones
#38. Shake hands with Pain, give greeting unto Grief, Those angels in disguise, and thy glad soul From height to height, from star to shining star, Shall climb and claim blest immortality.
Thomas Jefferson
#39. Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.
Vladimir Nabokov
#40. Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books.
Guy Browning
#41. Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes from the word Shalom, which means peace. It's about establishing peace. We greet each other with peace be upon you, which the Jews do in greeting each other.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
#42. Even worse is the discovery that one has been living out certain greeting-card sentiments, with ribbons of middle-class virtue tied in a bow around one's heart.
Saul Bellow
#43. The word 'aloha,' in foreign use, has taken the place of every English equivalent. It is a greeting, a farewell, thanks, love, goodwill. Aloha looks at you from tidies and illuminations; it meets you on the roads and at house-doors. It is conveyed to you in letters: the air is full of it.
Isabella Bird
#44. To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion.
Roger Ebert
#45. Sometimes you meet yourself on the road before you have a chance to learn the appropriate greeting. Faced with your own possibilities, the hard part is knowing a speech is not required. All you have to say is yes.
Pearl Cleage
#47. The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.
Louisa May Alcott
#48. Good Morning! Good Afternoon! Good Night! These are not just mere greetings.
They are powerful blessings, setting the best vibration for the day. Hence, whether it is morning, afternoon or night, make sure that you say your greeting right!
Franco Santoro
#49. Well, as Auden wondered: Will it come like a change in the weather? Will its greeting be courteous or rough? Will it alter my life altogether? O tell me the truth about love.
Stephen Fry
#50. Don't tell your friends about your indigestions: "How are you!" is a greeting, not a question.
Arthur Guiterman
#51. (Jack ignored his greeting and slammed his fist straight into the jaw of the spy.)
What did he do? Wear the wrong color coat? Or is it his stock you find offensive this time? (Morgan)
Kinley MacGregor
#52. I seem to be on a road, walking, greeting the hedgerows, the rose-hips, the apples and thorn. I seem to be on a road, walking, familiar with neighbors, high-handed with cattle, smelling the sea, and alone. Already, I know the names of things. I can kick a stone.
Annie Dillard
#53. Are "people in the world", I wonder, creatures that spend their whole lives greeting each other in stiff, formal patterns, being cautious about each other, then growing tired of each other? I hate meeting people.
Osamu Dazai
#54. [ ... ] the red-haired aesthete politician flashed a welcoming smile and extended a hand in greeting.
James Luceno
#55. There was just a thin fall of powdery snow in the air. It came onto their hats, not seeming to fall as much as to suddenly appear with its chill greeting on lips and noses.
Eloisa James
#56. Between Twitter and Facebook and how close you can be with your fans and how close they can be to you these days is, I think, quite miraculous. It's like getting a greeting card every single day.
Holland Roden
#57. Speak tenderly; let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well.
Mother Teresa
#58. I gave the prescribed Metropolitan Police "first greeting".
"Oi!" I said "What do you think you're doing?
Ben Aaronovitch
#59. You're too much of a bitch to go gently into that good night."
"You should put that on a greeting card.
SE Zbasnik
#60. Q'eeng had just attempted in the third dialect the traditional rightward schism greeting of "I offer you the bread of life," but his phrasing and accent had transmuted the statement into "Let us violate cakes together.
John Scalzi
#61. When greeting others, we usually ask them how they are doing, not because we sincerely care about how they are doing, but only because we want to be asked how we are doing.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#62. I never thought I had a soul, but in that moment when our eyes met and our hands touched in greeting, my soul screamed for joy.
Celeste Carrara
#63. If an alien lands on your front lawn and extends an appendage as a gesture of greeting, before you get friendly, toss it an eightball. If the appendage explodes, then the alien was probably made of antimatter. If not, then you can proceed to take it to your leader.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#64. Customary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, What's shaking, chiefy baby?
Thurgood Marshall
#65. A common greeting was 'Well, Gillette, how's the razor?' If I had been technically trained, I would have quit.
King C. Gillette
#66. Hello, Alan." said Carol's dad Keith.
"Hello, Alan." said Carol's mum, Stella, not bothering to think of a greeting of her own.
Alan Partridge
#67. Some days I do appreciate things more, eggs, flowers, but then I decide I'm only having an attack of sentimentality, my brain going pastel Technicolor, like a beautiful-sunset greeting cards they used to make so many of in California. High-gloss hearts.
The danger is grayout.
Margaret Atwood
#68. Romance isn't about proving to someone you love them with flowers and greeting cards and chocolate. Or even a lock on a fence. It's a daily reminder. It's saying, I choose you. Today and every day.
Kristen Proby
#69. I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#70. A tinge of panic tingled his cerebral cortex as he recalled the last greeting he had had in this country, which was not so welcoming.
Kenneth Eade
#71. His letters always begin without greeting and end without signature, as if they're part of one single letter, unrolling through time like an endless paper towel.
Margaret Atwood
#72. To part is the lot of all mankind. The world is a scene of constant leave-taking, and the hands that grasp in cordial greeting today, are doomed ere long to unite for the the last time, when the quivering lips pronounce the word - 'Farewell
R.M. Ballantyne
#73. It's the new me," I explained, waving my hands jazz-style in greeting. "Matthew Swift, Midnight fucking Mayor - I've got multicoloured highlighters and everything.
Kate Griffin
#74. I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies.
Patricia Moyes
#75. [Leafpool] waved her tail in greeting as she padded past Cloudtail and Daisy; as she left the clearing she heard Cloudtail meowing, "This time try to pretend I'm a badger and I'm going to eat your kits."
"But my kits really like you," Daisy protested.
Erin Hunter
#76. May your rice never burn,' is the New Year's greeting of the Chinese. 'May it never be gummy,' is ours.
Irma S. Rombauer
#77. When "history" loses its "story," it becomes only an empty greeting in one voice.
Kay Moore
#78. It was a silly idea. Homemade brownies for the bouncer who'd pulled Eric off of me? It was all I could think of to thank him, because I was pretty sure Hallmark didn't have a 'thanks for saving me from sexual assault' section of greeting cards. - Viv
Brenda Rothert
#79. She didn't drink wine, and even if she did, I didn't know if red or white was appropriate for telling a woman that you want to kill her former lover. Do they have greeting cards for that sort of thing?
Elliott James
#80. History chews up sexually uncertain boys, and spits us out as recycled, generic greeting cards for lonely old men.
Andrew Smith
#81. Sassy the basset hound sat up on the seat and yawned. Her tongue rolled into a long bologna canoe. She did a little shuffle on her front paws and snorted. Maybe it was a friendly greeting. Maybe she was having a doggie coronary.
Rick Riordan
#82. So when the world knocks at your front door,
clutch the knob and open on up,
running forward into its widespread greeting arms
with your hands before you,
fingertips trembling though they may be.
Anis Mojgani
#83. I think love is nothing but a fallacy propagated by the greeting card industry and a billion-dollar bridal enterprise that feeds into the fantasy of every little girl.
Addison Moore
#84. WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #15: AN OPEN DOOR IS EITHER A GREETING OR A TRAP. BEST TO DECIDE WHICH BEFORE YOU ENTER.
Mark Frost
#85. A pause followed my greeting. Then "We're watching you " whispered the voice on the other end.
"Yeah? Did you see what I did with my keys? "
Silence. Then dial tone.
These younger demons. So easily discouraged.
Josh Lanyon
#86. His lips were a promise, a blood bond, a kiss of greeting and goodbye, and the years in between.
C.D. Reiss
#87. Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come! And fast thy soul is fleeting To seek its starry home.
Pierre-Jean De Beranger
#88. Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
P. J. O'Rourke
#89. Kia ora meant hello. Tana was man, wahine woman. She learned that you did not say "thank you" but showed your gratitude through actions and that the Maori did not shake hands in greeting but rubbed noses instead. This ritual was called hongi
Sarah Lark
#90. It said, "Dad Calling," and his greeting was a shouted, "I didn't do two tours with the Marines only for my hometown to close down the library because of nudie boobies!
Kristen Ashley
#91. Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.
Karl Kraus
#92. In a dead white field an untethered goat gave them sardonic greeting.
Anthony Burgess
#93. My good friends David and Avi sent me a text greeting from their gym in NYC at 8 a.m. this morning. Isn't that a fine how do you do!
Dean Haglund
#94. He said it without greeting, as if they had parted the day before. Because it took her a moment to regain the art of breathing, she realized for the first time how much that voice meant to her.
Ayn Rand
#95. I hear they make greeting cards now
to thank your therapist ... for NOTHING
Casey Renee Kiser
#97. sharing a strong, five-second greeting each day with your spouse can become a long-term blessing to your relationship. Your greeting should say, "You are priceless to me," rather
Alex Kendrick
#98. CLEOPATRA: My salad days,
When I was green in judgment: cold in blood,
To say as I said then! But, come, away;
Get me ink and paper:
He shall have every day a several greeting,
Or I'll unpeople Egypt.
William Shakespeare
#99. Patience perforce with willful choler meeting/Makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting./I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall,/Now seeming sweet, convert to bitt'rest gall.
William Shakespeare
#100. Men praise me, I dream a little, they insult me, I scarcely show surprise. Then I forget, and smile at the man who insulted me, or am too courteous in greeting the person I love.
Albert Camus
