Quotes about Perennial

Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps. Votes: 3

Meditation upon the unknown Thought He thought was real meditation. No, meditation is not and cannot be On any thought. Meditation is a conscious withdrawal From the thought-world. Meditation is the place Where Reality, Divinity and Immortality Can each claim their own Perennial existence-light. Votes: 3

Falsehood is a perennial spring. Votes: 1

These are classic, perennial ideals we are dealing with. Votes: 1

The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem. Votes: 1

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student. Votes: 1

Conspiracies are a perennial favorite for television producers because there is always a receptive audience. Votes: 1

Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops. Votes: 1

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences. Votes: 1

To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy. Votes: 1

Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins. Votes: 1

Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established. Votes: 1

I think Nick Markakis is a perennial All-Star, and nobody knows about him. I think people are learning about how good he is. Votes: 1

Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue. Votes: 1

The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants. Votes: 1

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration. Votes: 1

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation. Votes: 1

I have raised beds, perennial beds, cut flower beds. I have an island on a pond that's just covered in peonies. I have an herb garden, tons of vegetables, raspberries. I have everything. I'm a green guy. Votes: 1

The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning. Votes: 1

Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me. Votes: 1

The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing. Votes: 1

I think that one of the nice things about the Yellow Submarine movie is that it seems to be perennial. People enjoy watching from each generation. And it was like the Beatles themselves. You know the Beatles seem to find new audience each time another generation comes along. Votes: 1

There's a perennial debate about whether the propagandistic tripe produced by establishment media outlets is shaped more by evil or by stupidity. Personally, I think it's both: a healthy dose of each is needed. The system design is malicious, while those who serve as its public face are generally vacant. Votes: 1

My mother was a secretary that elevated herself to having her own international company, my father elevated himself to an NBA player and perennial all-star. So I learned from my parents that it's about hard work, about both of them getting their education, putting people first and leading a life of integrity. Votes: 1

If you think about it, candidate Obama, Sen. Obama, was running on sort of long-run economic issues, like restoring prosperity to the middle class, dealing with the perennial problem of health care in the United States. He talked a lot about the budget deficit, about the need to transition to clean energy. Votes: 1

Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes. Votes: 1

The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity. Votes: 1

I am very much a person who appreciates perennial things. Things like a Lacoste shirt, a Clarks desert boot, Persol sunglasses and Vans shoes that have been the same forever. There are certain things that once you find it, you like it and it's done. I like Italian clothing, like suits from Battistoni and I have a shirt by Piero Albertelli. Votes: 1

The perennial gale of creative destruction Votes: 0

Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived. Votes: 0

Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers. Votes: 0

The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh. Votes: 0

Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring. Votes: 0

People souls - perennial loners. They're loners like stray stars. Votes: 0

Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions. Votes: 0

There is no season and no reason for love. Love is not seasonal its perennial. Votes: 0

Wisdom may be perennial, but to see its relevance we must see it lived out. Votes: 0

Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble. Votes: 0

I don't think the people of Chicago should be robbed of their birthright to be perennial losers. Votes: 0

Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man. Votes: 0

The true definition of a perennial: Any plant which, had it lived, would have bloomed year after year. Votes: 0

The most twisted but perennial of American myths is that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. (p. 174) Votes: 0

Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness; the perennial infusion of springtime into the winter of bleakness. Votes: 0

Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass. Votes: 0

Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps. Votes: 0

Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature. Votes: 0

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences. Votes: 0

As an atheist, you cannot fully make sense of the music, you have no explanation for the perennial motion and rhythm. Votes: 0

Tooth decay was a perennial national problem that meant a mouthful of silver for patients, and for dentists a pocketful of gold Votes: 0

Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself. Votes: 0

Patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it. Votes: 0

A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions. Votes: 0

I love touring. But it's super nice to have a new reason to play shows that isn't based around that perennial cycle of album/tour/promotion. Votes: 0

For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October. Votes: 0

The Lord's way is the only way for us to experience enduring happiness. His way brings sustained comfort to our souls and perennial peace to our homes. Votes: 0

At last, psychology gets serious about glee, fun, and happiness. Martin Seligman has given us a gift-a practical map for the perennial quest for a flourishing life. Votes: 0

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration." Votes: 0

A pen and a notebook and a reasonable amount of discrimination will change a journey from a mere annual into a perennial, its pleasures and pains renewable at will. Votes: 0

The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms. Votes: 0

The dust of thirty years hung lifeless in shafts of morning light, the gilding of perfectly prim pages shone incanescent, the shriek of rolling ladders mourned in perennial soliloquy. Votes: 0

Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world. Votes: 0

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride. They have yielded to the perennial temptation. Votes: 0

We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic. Votes: 0

Who cares, who cares. The perennial adolescent riposte. I cared, of course. I cared what people thought. I always did care. Unlike Laura, I have never had the courage of my convictions. Votes: 0

The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own. Votes: 0

In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior. Votes: 0

All happiness comes from awareness. The more we are conscious the deeper the joy. Acceptance of pain, non-resistance, courage and endurance - these open deep and perennial sources of real happiness, true bliss. Votes: 0

I wish my nose was smaller and that I was a little taller. I also had this perennial pimple problem, so I felt people were just being polite when they said I was beautiful. Votes: 0

I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error. Votes: 0

This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the craving for sympathy that every human sufferer feels. Votes: 0

More broadly across time and cultures, it seems, one perennial piece of advice to father has been the importance of acting tenderly toward their children. The New Father, it turns out, is an old story. Votes: 0

Fame is the responsibility, the perennial discipline, the concubine who solicits and imbibes, bit by bit, the love, the relations, the serenity, and the soul, leaving behind the subaqueous plaudits that pinch to the core.. Votes: 0