Top 28 Terre Quotes
#1. SAUNTERING, which word is beautifully derived "from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked charity, under pretense of going a la Sainte Terre," to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, "There goes a Sainte-Terrer," a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander.
Henry David Thoreau
#2. That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of usurpation throughout the earth.
[Fr., Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces pauvres enfants; c'est la ma place au soleil. Voila le commencement et l'image de l'usurpation de toute la terre.]
Blaise Pascal
#3. Une immense esprance a travers la terre', he read somewhere, and his comment was:'
and it's darned-well drowned everything worth having.
D.H. Lawrence
#4. Le nez de Cle opa" tre: s'il e u" t e te plus court, toute la face de la terre aurait change . Cleopatra'snose: if it had beenshorter the whole face of the earth would have been different.
Blaise Pascal
#5. I had a house in Haiti, in the hills above the North Atlantic coast. The house appeared as if out of a dream: my dream to have a foothold in the country. Like many concepts do in Haiti, the phrase 'pied a terre' became literal, material.
Madison Smartt Bell
#6. I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents.
Orville Redenbacher
#7. Beauty inspires love; so it is said, in Terre d'Ange. Was it done that we might find this world worthy of loving?
Jacqueline Carey
#8. This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is - A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never could outdo; Green herbs, red peppers, mussels, saffron, Soles, onions, garlic, roach, and dace; All these you eat at Terre's tavern, In that one dish of Bouillabaisse.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#9. She won't serve her dish cold," the oracle mumbled, almost with giddy joy as chill bumps rose all over her skin. "And two graves won't be near enough...
Rachel Vincent
#10. In the United States it's not important which religion you adhere to, as long as you have one.
Susan Sontag
#12. Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of life. O Britain! infamous for suicide.
Edward Young
#13. As I get older, I find myself way more into sports. I'm in a basketball league. You maybe know some of the people in it. They're real people, not fake ones like me.
Bryan Greenberg
#14. Never say yes to anything you can't say no to.
Marty Rubin
#15. Laws never protect anyone, despite claiming to be all about protecting the public. Each legal restriction only strengthens the power of mafia and crime organising who step in to help people do what the law says they can't do, in every country.
Terre Thaemlitz
#16. The stench of the manure that Jean was turning had cheered him up a little. He adored its promise of fertility and was sniffing it with the relish of a man smelling a randy woman.
Emile Zola
#17. God is not a being but an atom where all the power, attraction, information, and beauty resides.
Debasish Mridha
#18. I felt tight from the beginning of the match to the end. I couldn't relax.
Elena Vesnina
#19. I kind of knew Cleveland was going to get the No. 1 pick. I think they rigged it. No, don't quote me on that.
Carmelo Anthony
#20. While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#21. The Olympics are too powerful. I hate sports - they generate so much nationalism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, racism, economic exploitation, displacement of communities to build worthless bankrupt stadiums.
Terre Thaemlitz
#22. Within legal enforcement of "morality," there is no sense of how to morally, ethically, or fairly help people live safer lives. It's all about banishment or punishment or forced destitution - all of which creates more desperation, and more social risk-taking by people in moments of crisis.
Terre Thaemlitz
#23. For the secret of human existence lies not only in living, but in knowing what to live for.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#24. For me, style is about quality, integrity and timelessness. It is free of trends but always feels fresh and new.
Ralph Lauren
#25. Negativland through rose colored glasses. If 'mice are from Mars,' Greek Buck is from Venus.
Terre Thaemlitz
#26. The height of strategy, is to attack your opponent's strategy.
Sun Tzu
#27. One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.
Geraldine Jewsbury
#28. Life is hard for insects. And don't think mice are having any fun either.
Woody Allen
