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I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station,
by George Washington Carver

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station,
through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
- George Washington Carver

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Quotes by George Washington Carver

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others,
and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
- George Washington Carver

Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver

Learn to do common things uncommonly well;
we must always keep in mind that anything
that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver

There is no short cut to achievement.
Life requires thorough preparation -
veneer isn't worth anything.
- George Washington Carver

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness
of the woods before sunrise.
- George Washington Carver

Since new developments are
the products of a creative mind,
we must therefore stimulate and encourage
that type of mind in every way possible.
- George Washington Carver

I wanted to know the name of every stone
and flower and insect and bird and beast.
I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life -
but there was no one to tell me.
- George Washington Carver

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
- George Washington Carver

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person
walks in the woods and listens carefully,
he can learn more than what is in books,
for they speak with the voice of God.
- George Washington Carver

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver

If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.
- George Washington Carver

When our thoughts - which bring actions -
are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white,
we are in a living hell.
That is as real as hell will ever be.
- George Washington Carver

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.
Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower
or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets,
but I have found that when I silently commune with people
they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.
- George Washington Carver

No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver

Our creator is the same and never changes
despite the names given Him by people here
and in all parts of the world.
Even if we gave Him no name at all,
He would still be there, within us,
waiting to give us good on this earth.
- George Washington Carver

How far you go in life depends on you being
tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged,
sympathetic with the striving
and tolerant of the weak and the strong.
Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver

Love Quotes and Sayings

I love you just the way you are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare

Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost

The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous

Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone -
but paradoxically, if we cannot trust,
neither can we find love or joy.
- Walter Anderson

Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran

The greatest lovers are like twin blooms,
each reflecting the passion and the glory of the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Anxiety is love's greatest killer.
It makes one feel as you might
when a drowning man holds unto you.
You want to save him, but you know
he will strangle you with his panic.
- Anais Nin

Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Everything is clearer when you're in love.
- John Lennon

Love looks through a telescope;
envy, through a microscope.
- Josh Billings

Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde

Love doesn't just sit there like a stone;
it has to be made,like bread,
remade all the time, made new.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart,
but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
- Kay Knudsen

Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon

Love is like a butterfly,
it settles upon you when you least expect it.
- Anonymous

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson

Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.
- Khalil Gibran

Love is the veil between lover and lover.
- Khalil Gibran

True love is a process of co-creation
in which neither feels ownership or superiority.
Jealousy is a highly destructive force
for love and relationships.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Before moving on, you have to clear away your cherished beliefs.
- Dick Raymond

No partner in a love relationship...
should feel that he has to give up
an essential part of himself to make it viable.
- May Sarton

Falling in love and having a relationship
are two different things.
- Keanu Reeves

When we find someone whose weirdness
is compatible with ours,
we join up with them and fall into
mutually satisfying weirdness -
and call it love - true love.
- Robert Fulghum.

Love doesn't make the world go 'round,
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
- Franklin P. Jones

One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston

Love is a game that two can play and both win.
- Eva Gabor

Love conquers all.
- Virgil

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
- H. L. Mencken

I love you more than yesterday, less than tomorrow.
- Edmond Rostand

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
- George Jean Nathan

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth
or burn down your house, you can never tell.
- Joan Crawford

Love is a friendship set to music.
- Joseph Campbell

When love is not madness, it is not love.
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

And think not, you can direct the course of love;
for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
- Khalil Gibran

A very small degree of hope
is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
- Henri B. Stendhal

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times,
always with the same person.
- Germaine Greer

All mankind love a lover.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle

Love is of all passions the strongest,
for it attacks simultaneously the head,
the heart and the senses.
- Lao Tzu

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure;
Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.
- John Lennon

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter
quite like unrequited love.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic

Love begins with a smile,
grows with a kiss,
and ends with a teardrop.
- Anonymous

Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

At the beginning and at the end of love,
the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
- Jean de la Bruyere

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- H. L. Mencken

Love interrupts, if you like,
the consequences of your actions,
which in my case is very good news indeed,
because I've done a lot of stupid stuff.
- Bono

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie