Top 660 Bearing Quotes & Sayings

No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.

Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts made you more of a mother? Both, I realized. Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

For me, it's more about being there, bearing witness to history, bearing witness to what's happening, what our country, the position our country is taking overseas. I want policy-makers to see the fruits of their decisions, basically, and to try and influence foreign policy.

The spine is best at bearing a load in an arch

Beware of men bearing flowers.

On earth the living have much to bear; the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best.

The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom.

Individuals bearing witness do not change history; only movements that understand their social world can do that. Movements encourage solidarity; the moral individual is likely, all unwittingly, to do the opposite, for bearing witness is lonely: it breeds feelings of superiority and moralistic anger against those who are not doing the same.

Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.

I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.

I thank the Savior personally; for bearing all which I added to His hemorrhaging at every pore for all humanity in Gethsemane. I thank Him for bearing what I added to the decibels of His piercing soul cry atop Calvary.

What do we do about climate change bearing down upon us?

Motherhood is more than bearing children...It is the essence of who we are as women.

The processes of growth are gradual, bearing fruit in a decade, not a day.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood

We've been socialized with these concepts of love, intimacy, that have no bearing on reality.

Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are alsopracticed in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death--that is, they attempt suicide--twice as often as men, though men are more "successful" because they use surer weapons, like guns.

It is the people who constitute the basis of Government credit. Why then cannot the people have benefit of their own gilt-edge credit by receiving non-interest bearing currency-instead of bankers receiving the benefit of the people's credit in interest-bearing bonds. If the United States Government will adopt this policy of increasing its national wealth without contributing to the interest collector-for the whole national debt is made up on interest charges-then you will see an era of progress and prosperity in this country such as could never have come otherwise.

Ultimately, what you're feeding yourself has a bearing on how you're going to perform.

The personal desolation Christ is experiencing on the cross is what you and I should be experiencing--but instead, Jesus is bearing it, and bearing it all alone. Why alone? He's alone so that we might never be alone.

"Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find here and there a spray broken, or a leafy stem bent down with the tread of His foot and the brush of His hand as He passed; and to remember that the path He trod He has hallowed, and thus to find lingering fragrance and hidden strength in the remembrance of Him as "in all points tempted like as we are," bearing grief for us, bearing grief with us, bearing grief like us."

As in Machiavelli, the bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the individual asserts both his social power and his participation in politics as a responsible moral being; but the possession of land in nondependent tenure is now the material basis for bearing of arms.

Even though they (women) grow weary and wear themselves out with child-bearing, it does not matter; let them go on bearing children till they die, that is what they are there for.

We may be masters of our every lot By bearing it.

My having HIV has no bearing on my business.

A culture-bearing book, like a mule, bears the culture on its back. No one should sit down to write one deliberately. Culture-bearing books appear almost accidentally, like a sudden surge in the stock market. There are books of high quality that are a part of the culture, but that is not the same. They are a part of it. They aren't carrying it anywhere. They may talk about insanity sympathetically, for example, because that's the standard cultural attitude. But they don't carry any suggestion that insanity might be something other than sickness or degeneracy.

Jesus is being lost in a religion bearing his name.

We gain or strengthen a testimony by bearing it.

It is important to act as if bearing witness matters.

The highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is bearing arms.

Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write.

The storyteller is one who comes bearing a great and lasting gift.

They were of many types of seals, all bearing the insignia of the King.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke.

Being a daughter is only half the equation; bearing one is the other.

A wife is the earth itself, changing hands, bearing scars.

Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse.

'On earth the living have much to bear;' the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best.

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

Fruit-bearing involves cross-bearing. There are not two Christs--an easygoing one for easygoing Christians, and a suffering, toiling one for exceptional believers. There is only one Christ. Are you willing to abide in Him, and thus to bear much fruit?

The loss of one's dignified bearing is often sudden.

The arms are fair, When the intent of bearing them is just.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.

They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.

Women have a real talent for bearing up under hard times.

People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood.

Beware of geeks, you know, bearing formulas.

Testimony bearing is the key to missionary work

'Wingnuts' is the first book bearing the imprint of Beast Books.

Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may veer off its course for many miles. Without a compass bearing, a ship would neither find its port nor be able to estimate the time required to get there.

Great occasions rally great principles, and brace the mind to a lofty bearing, a bearing that is even above itself. But trials that make no occasion at all, leave it to show the goodness and beauty it has in its own disposition. And here precisely is the superhuman glory of Christ as a character, that He is just as perfect, exhibits just as great a spirit in little trials as in great ones.

Grudges seldom hurt anyone except the one bearing them.

Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

I never saw a fruit-bearing Christian who was not a student of the Bible.