Quotes About Gourds

#1. We still and always want waking. We should amass half dressed in long lines like tribesmen and shake gourds at each other, to wake up; instead we watch television and miss the show.

Annie Dillard

#2. Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.

Ramakrishna

#3. We're not pumpkins. We're stunning autumn gourds.

Penny Reid

#4. Thus the Lord, by pain, sickness, and disappointments, by breaking our cisterns and withering our gourds - weakens our attachment to this world, and makes the thought of leaving it, more easy and more desirable.

John Newton

#5. The infernal flag-waving after 9/11 nearly drove liberals out of their gourds. For the left, 'flag-waving' is an epithet.

Ann Coulter

#6. It's always difficult to see yourself as other people do, but I'm realistic about my appearance. I wasn't born with one of those pretty, pretty faces, so I've never been absorbed with the way I look. I just try to make the most of what I've got.

Alison Jackson

#7. I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales.

Arthur Kornberg

#8. This isn't just a book about organizational change - it's also about

Daryl R. Conner

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

Charles Spurgeon

#10. When you say you'll meet someone at 11:00 AM, be there at 10:45. When you promise a check on the 30th, send it on the 28th. Whatever you agree to do, do it a bit more. Start with your employees, then extend it to everyone you deal with. News will soon get around that you are a person of your word.

C.P. Scott

#11. The system is only as good as the person programming it. If you don't have the follow-through, your system is useless. And by the way, it's that way in parenting; it's that way in marriages.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#12. 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

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

Dorothy Gilman

#14. A man can be called ruthless if he bombs a country to oblivion. A woman can be called ruthless if she puts you on hold.

Gloria Steinem

#15. Things are not getting better. They are getting worse. We need to elect Mitt Romney to turn things around.

Rob Portman

#16. I think I was very often bored as a child, but boredom is not what I knew it as - what I knew was that I worried a lot

David Foster Wallace