Top 1200 Tiny Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

I've had the good fortune of teaching and preaching across much of the globe, while also struggling to make sense of my experience in my own tiny world.

I love those tiny little onions in the spring that are so small they're almost like a little chive.

For me, it's not about building bulk in my muscles; it's about staying tiny, strong, and lean.

When you have a kid, it changes your life. It reminds you, this is my life now: I'm responsible for this tiny person. It's so surreal.

Opportunities are a tricky crop, with tiny flowers that are difficult to see and even more difficult to harvest.

I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about - the tiny hole through the roof or the bottom of a box. There's no doubt it's the most versatile of the five elements. It can wash away earth; it can put out fire, it can wear a piece of metal down and sweep it away. Even wood, which is its natural complement, can't survive without being nurtured by water And yet, you haven't drawn on those strengths in living your life, have you?

Day by day, tiny specks of us float away.

Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

It is not a happy lot being a princess in any country, but especially Japan in which every tiny aspect of one's life is governed by the most rigid rules of protocol.

Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.

As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote a column for The Guardian from this tiny village in India.

I went through puberty late. I was a little, little, tiny kid. I was still growing in college.

LaGuardia Airport is tiny compared to its sleek modern counterparts, like Atlanta or Denver with their endless parallel runways spread over thousands of acres.

I have been to beaches in many parts of the world, but Maldives is amazing. The country is very small, people are simple, each island is so tiny and the food is good.

As our mother-earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain of protoplasm in the perishable framework of organic nature.

The great pyramid is overrated. It's a bad design. The lounge is going to be huge, but the bedroom is going to be tiny.

Our nation needs protection against complete dominance of Parliament by one party, which could allow a tiny number of people to control everything.

At a minimum if we can just have enough distribution of clout in society so it isn't run by a tiny minority, then at the very least it gives us some room to breathe.

The humped bladderwort has yellow, snapdragon-like flowers, and it's actually carnivorous, capable of trapping and eating not just insects but even tadpoles and tiny fish.

I like really tiny rings, midi rings, and little bracelets that have a charm on them.

The tiny cost of failure...is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.

Who knew that the devil had a factory where he made millions of fossils, which his minions distributed throughout the earth, in order to confuse my tiny brain?

Things, things, things. Always more things, and success is seen as the abundance of things.

Thinking is no more than a tiny aspect of the totality of consciousness, the totality of who you are.

Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.

In civilizational issues you don't look at the tiny details as the debate. You have to look at the big picture!

If you think about it now, it's kind of ridiculous. All these hot girls on Baywatch in tiny little red bathing suits running around saving lives.

Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

I was brought up telling stories, when I was a kid, in the tiny village where I grew up. Storytelling was a tradition.

Barberries, or zereshk, are tiny dried red fruit with a tremendously sharp flavour. They come from Iran, where they're used to add freshness to rice and chicken dishes.

I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that.

I've got genuine political reasons for not voting for David Cameron. He's got a tiny little mouth.

We seldom get into trouble when we speak softly. It is only when we raise our voices that the sparks fly and tiny molehills become great mountains of contention.

We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.

love is dangerous for your tiny heart even in your dreams so please dream softly

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.

I'd much rather be in the expanse of the wilderness because it feels like part of my world. It's a unique perspective. You're this tiny speck in a huge environment, and it's nice to be reminded of that.

I think of stress as the creator of cancer and heart attacks, like a tiny little ball you feed. I believe that one of the reasons I've never got ill is that I'm not stressed.

'The Borrowers' is the story of tiny people who live beneath the floorboards of houses and borrow from the occupants. I may have tried to pull up a plank or two because of it.

Even without seeing the crickets, grasshoppers, cicadas and katydids, we hear them shrilling in this season and trust that they're the tiny living gargoyles entomologists claim.

I really can't be bothered going to a barber. And shaving every morning, that's nightmarish. I spent my teenage years covered in tiny little bits of toilet paper.

Margaret Kochamma's tiny, ordered life relinquished itself to this truly baroque bedlam with the quiet gasp of a warm body entering a chilly sea.

If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.

My family is from a tiny town in Alabama. So all I wanted to do was get out of this town.

It's dizzying to think how huge the world is, or to realize how tiny you are

It was a tiny sound but it woke me up because it was a human sound.

As everyone knows, nothing is sweeter than tiny baby fingers and chubby baby toes.

We were awash in tiny attentions. Small gestures, words, empathies thought to be extinct came to life... We discovered the color of each other's eyes.

Amsterdam. It is so cute and quaint. I rode bicycles around the city and through the tiny little streets, rented a paddleboat and had a picnic lunch on the canals.

I like to know a tiny bit about almost everything. I do like a pub quiz.

The FCC extorts broadcasters by threatening to take away their licenses for infringements which are usually the result of complaints from an extreme, right wing, tiny bunch of individuals.

I would say that Roger Federer is pretty amazing. And Manny Pacquiao - he's such a tiny, little lightweight guy, but the way he fights makes people so excited.

I'm always looking at my brother and sisters, thinking - do we look inbred, maybe? Maybe a tiny bit.

My husband says it is very good that I have very tiny feet, because they're easier to get in my mouth.

I used to have a hat obsession, but unfortunately for me, I have a tiny head, which means most hats don't fit very well. I do love them, though.

I have been listening to sport and watching sport on the BBC since I was a tiny boy.

By Chivalries as tiny, A Blossom, or a Book, The seeds of smiles are planted- Which Blossom in the dark.

Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred.

I was a little, tiny kid in the '80s, but I do remember seeing the styles of clothes, and I remember the cars from that era.

I can only envision and feel the pain of these animals being stuck in a tiny aquarium. Normally, orcas swim 100 miles a day. They're free in the ocean.