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Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.


Emily Dickinson

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JEFFREY EUGENIDES I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read ...
MAURICE SENDAK The Brain - is wider than the Sky -
For - put them side by side -
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EMILY DICKINSON Some readers may be disturbed that I wrote 'The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson' in Emily'...
JEROME CHARYN Oh phosphorescence. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to... To find that phosphorescence, that l...
WILLIAM LUCE She died--this was the way she died;
And when her breath was done,
Took up her simple ward...
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WOODY ALLEN Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.
JOHN DRYDEN Poetry. I read Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Jane Hirschfield. I like to read Billy Collins out...
AMY TAN Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth ...
DON ROFF I guess I'm not like Emily Dickinson who keeps things wrapped up in a ribbon in their top drawer.
JEFF BRIDGES Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical ...
BILLY COLLINS By nature man without woman can feel no joy. She is his mother, his sister, his loving friend. She i...
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many ...
SAMANTHA SHANNON I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warn...
BILLY COLLINS You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's p...
MAURICE SENDAK I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
And Mourners to and fro
Kept treading – treading – till...
EMILY DICKINSON Nature is regulating our climate for free. Mother Nature, she's been doing that for free, for a ...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN A mother is like nature, she appreciates her child’s every mood.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Mother Nature doesn't set out to be beautiful. She just is.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Mother Nature is relentless and forward. When we do not live according to her laws she rewards us wi...
NANCY S. MURE What an incredible honor, not only for Emily, but also for our program. Emily deserves all of the po...
YVETTE GIROUARD The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
G.K. CHESTERTON I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have al...
JOYCE CAROL OATES I love the idea of the 'vignette,' which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, sm...
KATE BERNHEIMER A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM When I think of Emily Dickinson, there's not one particular poem of hers that jumps out, but I d...
MALLORY ORTBERG Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.
JAMES ROLLINS Innocent as a dove you will harm no one, but wise as a serpent no one will harm you.
HAUG Innocent as a dove you will harm no one, but wise as a serpent no one will harm you.
HAUG First do no harm
HIPPOCRATES No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mo...
MARGARET SANGER Our connection to the great myths of our natures is murky. A mother might see the Medea in herself w...
HOWARD JACOBSON She is incredibly fit. But we remind staff that she's not just the monarch, but our mother. There's ...
PRINCE ANDREW Take nothing, do no harm.
RAY ANDERSON Mother nature is not cooperating. Things will get worse as the day progresses.
JOE WOODEN If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
KURT VONNEGUT Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?"
Nothing, precious," she said; "t...
J.M. BARRIE First, we must do no harm.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister. We can...
G.K. CHESTERTON Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go q...
JOHN MUIR The Hippocratic Oath says do no harm. It's the Hypocritical Oath that says do no harm to one'...
MARK MCKINNON We couldn't really get anyone at the hotel to tell us anything, so we called my mother. She told us ...
BARRY MURPHY She must have thrown the eldest in first. He would have fought her,
JOYCE HARRIS People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory ...
HENRY CANTWELL WALLACE Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Surround yourself with the colours of nature, after all no one does it better than mother nature
DARLENE WATSON That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG Do not forget you mother, when she is old.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA An eldest brother who through avarice may defraud the younger ones, shall no ,longer hold the positi...
GURU NANAK There is no harm in the blind, nor is there any harm in the lame, nor is there any harm in the sick ...
QURAN Our society loves raw character; we love raw women. We don't love our mother because she is hot ...
KANGANA RANAUT There are certainly contemporaries that I admire, like Emily Blunt. I think she is amazing.
ROSAMUND PIKE Some call this the 'no harm, no foul' case. But there is harm.
KATHY RODGERS Mother nature is a fickle and forgetful bitch," she snapped. "She needs a helping hand and I am tryi...
SABRINA JEFFRIES You cannot do harm to someone because someone has done harm to you. You will pay just like they will...
ERICKA WILLIAMS Mother Nature is not sweet.
JOHN SHELBY SPONG Emily is one of the most competitive people I have ever coached. She?s a very intense and determined...
BILL MANDIGO We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our chi...
EMILY DICKINSON No harm will come to me. The Assembly is prepared to treat us leniently.
MARIE ANTOINETTE The law is a compromise. It will harm no one and make many happy.
JIRI HROMADA If there were something that Mother Nature or God could do with money, She or He would have sold imm...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA She was last seen last (Friday) up around Mount Emily Road.
LT. DENNIS DINSMORE My mother is not a CIA agent, but she's an Italian mother, and she'd do anything for her son...
ADRIANO GIANNINI Do not sit next to my mother when she is watching one of her children compete because you will have ...
DIANA LOPEZ Native Americans never took a stance; we've always respected the earth. Anytime we do something that...
DALE CARSON ...It’s the beauty of this world, that is so alive that if we see properly, we’d know that heave...
JAYENDRA PURI GOSWAMI No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free...
MARGARET SANGER No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself fr...
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WHOOPI GOLDBERG Emily Osment has 'osteo-old-woman-itis.' She can't lift weights or do physical activity ...
LUCAS TILL I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. ...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Last year in the tournament Emily realized that she can score, too.
DOUG PICKARTS We are born of love; Love is our mother.
RUMI This will do great economic harm to my business.
CATHY BURKE My mother graduated from high school at 15 and went to work to support the family because the eldest...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not ...
POPE PAUL VI Mother Nature is throwing a winter storm.
BILL HOFFER People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved ...
JOHN GREEN Emily is very capable but must remain focused, ... She knows her angles, and makes good stops and cl...
CASEY SILVER there is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your ma...
GEORGE MACDONALD Emily was beautiful. I knew she was capable of it. She turned it on when she needed to turn it on.
MICHELLE BRUNE Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe...
HELEN OYEYEMI The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Nurses are required to be patient advocates and do no harm.
DEBORAH BURGER Mother Nature offers her nurturing essence to us all freely with no expectation of reciprocation.
AMY LEIGH MERCREE Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We love our mother because she cares and also because she cooks.
AMIT KALANTRI I was a mother, and she was a sister. We gave our best, and we would do it again.
LINDA MCGLADE Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.
JOHN DRYDEN She was surprised because she was Emily, and she did not share Jonathan's frank assessment of cowork...
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...
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EMILY DICKINSON Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
EMILY DICKINSON Unable are the loved to die for love is immortality.
EMILY DICKINSON Anger as soon as fed is dead — 'Tis starving makes it fat.
EMILY DICKINSON Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
EMILY DICKINSON That it shall never come again is what makes life so sweet
EMILY DICKINSON Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will n...
EMILY DICKINSON One need not be a chamber to be haunted; / One need not be a house; /The brain has corridors surpass...
EMILY DICKINSON We never know where we go when we are going, We jest and shut the door; Fate - following behind us -...
EMILY DICKINSON How dreary - to be - somebody! How public - like a frog - to tell your name - the livelong June - to...
EMILY DICKINSON When it comes, the Landscape listens - Shadows - hold their breath - When it goes, 'tis like the Dis...
EMILY DICKINSON Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity
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