Top 708 Trace Quotes & Sayings

You can trace the entire history of Britain by looking at gardens.

A good wanderer leaves no trace.

Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.

You can trace the E Street Band directly back to the Rascals.

Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.

On a soft snow, even a sparrow leaves a trace; the important thing is to leave a trace on a steel plate!

It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.

To trace the history of a river or a raindrop is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. In both, we constantly seek and stumble upon divinity, which like feeding the lake, and the spring becoming a waterfall, feeds, spills, falls, and feeds itself all over again.

What you think of as they past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now. When you remember the past, you reactivate a memory trace -- and you do so now. The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind. When the future comes, it comes as the Now. When you think about the future, you do it now. Past and future obviously have no reality of their own. Just as the moon has no light of its own, but can only reflect the light of the sun, so are past and future only pale reflections of the light, power, and reality of the eternal present. Their reality is "borrowed" from the Now.

Coming, going, the waterbirds, don't leave a trace, don't follow a path.

It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.

The world is like a sheet of paper on which something is typed. The reading and the meaning will vary with the reader, but the paper is the common factor, always present, rarely perceived. When the ribbon is removed, typing leaves no trace on the paper. So is my mind - the impressions keep on coming, but no trace is left.

We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.

Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life.

You couldn't change a river into a sea, but you could trace a new channel for it to follow.

...for everything has a trace of the divine in it.

We trace the hand of the Almighty in framing the Constitution of our land

Time's flying wheel leaves little trace behind.

Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions.

Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up.

There is no place in the world but contains some trace of God.

This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.

Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, "We must not hit each other in the holy place.

No matter how well you think you've hidden, you'll always leave behind a trace. And the more you try to hide that trace, the more obvious and troublesome it will become.

To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body.

If you leave a good trace behind you, that trace will continue its walk even if you stop!

The hardest grief is often that which leaves no trace.

I want viewers want to talk about The Conquest. I want the dialogue to start after the movie. The cinema is there to leave a trace. I hope my film leaves a trace and that it will open a door for French cinema and that tomorrow other directors will make political movies. The job of a filmmaker today is to talk about the world surrounding him and, through his movies, to both entertain and raise questions about modern society.

It is for no particular item in the tax-bill that I refuse to pay it. I simply wish to refuse allegiance to the State, to withdrawand stand aloof from it effectually. I do not care to trace the course of my dollar, if I could, till it buys a man or a musket to shoot one with,--the dollar is innocent,--but I am concerned to trace the effects of my allegiance. In fact, I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make what use and get what advantage of her I can, as is usual in such cases.

Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves little trace in history.

My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless.

A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.

There's a terrible delight in watching a rival sink without a trace

It’s very difficult to trace convicted paedophiles

Britain no longer exists. It is a trace of what it used to be.

I can trace my interest in modern classics to the summer before art college.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished.

I really hope that when I leave, my last trace will be beautiful.

I want to trace my father, could you suggest a good marker pen?

Misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case.

Warning, I may contain more than a trace amount of nut.

To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.

I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight.

When we have the same thought again, the line of the original thought is deepened, causing what's called a memory trace. With each repetition the trace goes deeper and deeper, forming and embedding a pattern of thought. When an emotion is tied to this thought pattern, the memory trace grows exponentially stronger.

I believe the earth gets warmer, and I also believe the earth gets cooler, and I think history points out that it does that and that the idea that man through the production of CO2 which is a trace gas in the atmosphere and the manmade part of that trace gas is itself a trace gas is somehow responsible for climate change is, I think, just patently absurd when you consider all of the other factors.

The inability to trace DNA to actual diseases has serious consequences. As does the opposite problem - not being able to trace diseases back to DNA.

God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.

We can trust God's heart even when we can't trace His path.

The place where even the slightest trace of the 'I' does not exist, alone is Self.

To study the buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well as the bodies and minds of others drop away. No trace of realization remains, and this no trace continues endlessly.

Making movies is an effort is an attempt to leave a trace of your existence.

I probably just want to leave a trace of myself behind in this world.

There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.

I don't want to go without leaving a trace.

There are more than 4000 landing trace cases from around the world.

You trust him, Trace, and you know it." "With my back," Trace snapped. "Not with my sister.

I love all things, not because they are passionate or sweet-smelling but because, I don't know, because this ocean is yours, and mine: these buttons and wheels and little forgotten treasures, fans upon whose feathers love has scattered its blossoms, glasses, knives and scissors -- all bear the trace of someone's fingers on their handle or surface, the trace of a distant hand lost in the depths of forgetfulness.

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

People like to trace their ancestry.

The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.