(122 quotes found)
“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.”
John Cotton Dana
“When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“They said this mystery never shall cease: the priest promotes war, and the soldier peace”
William Blake
“He's not pining, he's passed on. This parrot is no more. He has ceased to be. He's expired and gone to meet his maker. He's a stiff, bereft of life, he rests in peace. If you hadn't have nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies. He's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot!”
Monty Python
“When you cease to dream you cease to live.”
Malcolm S. Forbes
“Shall not be long but I'll be here again:Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upwardTo what they were before.”
William Shakespeare
“God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.”
James Allen