Piecing Together Quotes

#1. The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the entire burden on the state and its agencies.

Jonathan Sacks

#2. These things are not glorified, just recorded. Tattooed on the heart; burned into the family's history. This piecing together of the life of your child; this homage, this attempt to put it all in order; and even though you will one day wish for the heartbreak to leave you, it never will.

Whitney Otto

#3. Piecing together a murder was much more difficult than piecing together a cake.

Ellie Alexander

#4. When things don't turn out the way we want, about the only thing we can do is know God is still there piecing together all the scraps of the events in our lives the way He has planned. He sees the big picture even when we don't.

Jody Hedlund

#5. Someday our piecing together of knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas we shall either go mad or flee into the safety of a new dark age.

H.P. Lovecraft

#6. An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.

Lascelles Abercrombie

#7. And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.

Gregory Maguire

#8. The journey comes with baggage, yes. And heartbreak. But there are also many gifts. In a sense, we're all cobblers. We're all a bit like Brother Joseph, piecing together our faith, one shard of broken glass at a time.

Rachel Held Evans

#9. She was having some difficulty piecing together exactly why she deserved to be in this place, but she wasn't stupid enough to deny that in the end life was cruel and didn't pay attention to what was fair.

Ted Dekker

#10. it felt like years spent piecing together coincidences, and all he had made from it was a strange cloth - too heavy to carry, too light to do any good at all. "Mr.

Maggie Stiefvater

#11. Looting has an immense impact on our ability to understand our global cultural heritage; once these objects are gone, so too is our chance of piecing together humanity's shared story.

Sarah Parcak

#12. He's got to do better than the shoddy piecing together of flimsy evidence that contradicts the briefings we have received by various agencies, .. I'm not hearing the same things at the briefings that I'm hearing from the president's top officials.

Russ Feingold

#13. After I consumed Frost in his entirety, my days of exploration began. I read The Diving Comedy while leafing through E. E. Cummings. I read Sidney and Milton and Shelley, piecing together my own aesthetics, my own defence of poetry. I felt alone and religious and desperately sad.

Spencer Gordon

#14. So this was the big secret historians keep to themselves: historical research is wildly seductive and fun. There's a thrill in the process of digging, then piecing together details like a puzzle.

Nancy Horan

#15. As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.

Edmund White

#16. How children love the broken thing! And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done. Adult

Gregory Maguire

#17. Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to working out the pattern of German radio traffic.

Robert Harris

#18. Life's just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits.

Edith Wharton

#19. You probably have to trust that your work is following certain themes and certain movements, but then the rest is a kind of piecing together so that the whole becomes larger than the parts.

Jess Walter

#20. Maybe I was still broken and would always be-but now, at least, I was piecing myself back together, lining up one jagged edge at a time.

Alexandra Bracken

#21. I've got a lot of other people who do a lot of things for me, so I've gotten to a part in my career where I'm doing a lot of talks because I want to get kids turned on. I want to see these kids, these geeky nerdy kids, go out there and do something.

Temple Grandin

#22. When I walk out on that stage, I just want America to know, that this is what I'm supposed to do. This is my dream.

Pia Toscano

#23. So far, I felt like I had a lapful of confetti and the notion of piecing it all together to make a picture seemed very remote indeed.

Sue Grafton

#24. I should let people I meet do the work of piecing me together until they can complete, or mostly complete, the puzzle. And when they're finished they can look at the picture that they've managed to piece together and decide whether they like it or not. On their own time. Let them discover you.

Carrie Fisher

#25. Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well.

Andrew Weil

#26. Discovery is exciting, no matter how big or small or close or distant ...

Mike Brown

#27. I am a song bird, I am a meek song bird, I offer my prayer to the Lord.

Guru Nanak

#28. I recognize that there are some great things about not playing a song live, and just kind of piecing it together as you go.

John Britt Daniel

#29. I love Jimi Hendrix obviously, and Jimmy Page and Prince. And also Elvis Presley is a really great guitar player. I don't think he ever took lessons; he was piecing it together himself. But he has great rhythm. And rhythm, to me, you can use it to your advantage if you're not all over the fretboard.

Brittany Howard

#30. How did you know which life was the right one for you when there were so many to choose from?

Sarah Pekkanen

#31. I was enamored of detectives as a teenager. I liked what they did - piecing things together, thinking about situations. But to get there? Eight to ten years in a patrol car? I didn't have that in me. I didn't want to tell people what to do.

Michael Connelly

#32. Inventions are rarely just a sudden bright idea. Even if they are, they usually have antecedents in the form of pieces of the idea ... Piecing these things together gives one a sense of where inventions come from, and that's interesting.

Richard Rhodes

#33. I don't have a past. I have a continuous present. The past is part of the present, just as the future is. We exist in time.

George Balanchine

#34. I am writing a book. I have got the page numbers done.

Stephen Wright

#35. Revenge is a luscious fruit which you must leave to ripen.

Emile Gaboriau