Top 593 Gathering Quotes & Sayings

Trophies stay in the cabinet gathering dust, but friends are for life.

My dream... was to be an eclectic knowledge-gathering person.

If you decide on having an alcoholic at your party, make sure it's a large gathering. This way, until the alcoholic begins removing their clothes or dangling the cat out the window, they can sort of blend in. An alcoholic at a small gathering is called an intervention.

The dusk was performing its customary intransitive operation of "gathering".

My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

A gathering of Democrats is more sweaty, disorderly, offhand, and rowdy than a gathering of Republicans; it is also likely to be more cheerful, imaginative, tolerant of dissent, and skillful at the game of give-and-take. A gathering of Republicans is more respectable, sober, purposeful, and businesslike than a gathering of Democrats; it is also likely to be more self-righteous, pompous, cut-and-dried, and just plain boring.

The Church is not the building, its the people, its not just the gathering, its also the scattering.

I just love that Free the Slaves does such a great job of gathering communities, gathering people together, and giving them the information, arming them, educating them. That's how we're going to change the world.

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

Gathering news in Russia was like mining coal with a hat pin.

Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington.

The normal way of gathering information is through sound: when you hear information that you want to gather, you look in its direction, you see what it is, if you choose you can get closer, you can see it, you can touch, and then, finally, the most committed form of data gathering is to taste it and eat it. But for the urbanite, we're cut off from our primary sense, and I want to stress that - our primary sense of gathering information about the place that we're living in - and instead, we're in a war zone.

The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.

Batley and Spen is a gathering of typically independent, no-nonsense and proud Yorkshire towns and villages.

[I]t may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering.

Moments. All gathering towards this one.

Community is gathering around a fire and listening to someone tell a story.

Describing something as the 'Woodstock of...' has taken to mean a one-of-a-kind historic gathering.

For some, the very act of intelligence gathering seems illegitimate when applied to the crime of terrorism.

As a leader it is your job to protect the missional integrity of the Jesus gathering to which you have been called. It is your responsibility to see to it that the church under your care continues as a gathering of people in process; a place where the curious, the unconvinced, the skeptical, the used-to-believe and the broken, as well as the committed, informed and sold-out come together around Peter's declaration that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God.

A big part of filmmaking is gathering a group of people you can work with.

Magic: The Gathering is like Dungeons and Dragons if D&D was played with cards and didn't take 18 weeks.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

Some people say they're gathering DNA. Perhaps they're gathering it for the future when the human race is stronger or weaker, who knows. That's science fiction and mere speculation.

If I'm in a gathering of filmmakers, I'm first and foremost a British Indian; if I'm in a gathering of British Indians, I'm a woman director. There are so many sides to who I am that I change all the time.

This is a gathering of Lovers. In this gathering there is no high, no low, no smart, no ignorant, no special assembly, no grand discourse, no proper schooling required. There is no master, no disciple. This gathering is more like a drunken party, full of tricksters, fools, mad men and mad women. This is a gathering of Lovers.

There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.

The idea of hunting and gathering as the best way for life has become quite popular recently, much more populare in some circles than the idea of simple farming as the best way of life. Many of the new primitives regard the beginnings of agriculture as one of humanity's major steps in the wrong direction. Most of the people who are drawn to such ideas do their actual hunting and gathering in grocery stores, but the *feeling* is there; it takes the form of a religion...expressed by particpating in American Indian rituals - or primitive-style rituals that are created anew.

Two Soviets . . . were talking to each other. And one of them asked, "What's the difference between the Soviet Constitution and the United States Constitution?" And the other one said, "That's easy. The Soviet Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of gathering. The American Constitution guarantees freedom after speech and freedom after gathering."

Set’s storm is gathering,” Amos said with a twinkle in his eyes. “Shall we drive into is?

No one can stop a mass gathering of the people.

Saddam Hussein's regime is a gray and gathering danger.

The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft; and gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

The process of gathering spiritual light is the quest of a lifetime.

Old wisdom out of the cluster of gathering shadows.

I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops.

I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.

If there's one thing I'm good at, it's gathering people together to do something fun.

Wine needs to have a context in a social gathering to fulfill its historical place in this world.

We are a nation equally afraid of gathering together and being alone.

The gathering of believers should be an opportunity for wonder, anticipation and imagination; not drudgery, duty or routine.

Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church.

In cyberspace, the Wikipedians never stop gathering: It's a continuous round-the-clock rolling workfest.

Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.

When I'm covering a story, it's not just about gathering facts, but it's gathering the human element as well.

If we had complete knowledge, you wouldn't need any intelligence gathering whatsoever. The president isn't god. We do have intelligence gathering.

In the 1990s, human intelligence gathering was seriously neglected.

My zero-stress way to host a gathering: Make the guests do the cooking.

The U.K. is at the heart of intelligence gathering with our allies to call out hostile activity.

Steiner has here transformed the vaporous conceptions of his life, the vapors of what never was and never will be, from their aeriform state to a fine and ethereal substantiality. My Unwritten Books is a gathering of shades, an elegant and eloquent gathering of mind, feeling, and autumnal passion. (...) And that is the lovely irony of this unique little book. None of these unwritten books should have been written. They are better here, as they are, untamed and errant phantoms of a brilliance whose emanations no one mortal lifetime could ever accommodate in full.

Money is just a symbol we use to facilitate te gathering of memories and experiences.

We realized you cannot create a car by simply gathering needed components.

It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.

The owls are gathering; find out why soon.

The original Greek meaning of the word anthology is a collection or gathering of flowers in bloom.

Gathering of the Vibes is a gathering of the elders, a gathering of the youth, a gathering of family

Wallace's sales agent, back in London, heard mutterings from some naturalists that young Mr. Wallace ought to quit theorizing and stick to gathering facts. Besides expressing their condescension toward him in particular, that criticism also reflected a common attitude that fact-gathering, not theory, was the proper business of all naturalists.

No big league team is having a gathering like this 2 days before the season

What is a gathering without unseemly drunkenness?

I am, by instinct, wary of revolutions. The gathering of the masses fills me with trepidation.