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Quotes About Tiny

Brightport looked so small: a cluster of low buildings, all huddled around a tiny horseshoe-shaped bay, a lighthouse at one
~ Liz Kessler
Many refiners received rebates, not just the leading firms, and some tiny rivals actually got superior discounts, especially from the Pennsylvania Railroad.
~ Ron Chernow
In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.
~ Douglas Adams
The tiny share we have of time appalls me, though my father seems to regard it with tranquillity.
~ Alice Munro
He was just under three inches tall. His blue-black hair, done in a plait and pressed to his head by a colored headband, gleamed in the sun. So did the minuscule muscles of his tiny naked torso, and the skin of his arms. His legs were covered with buckskin leggings, which had some decoration on them too small to see properly. He wore a kind of bandolier across his chest and his belt seemed to be made of several strands of some shiny white beads. Best of all, somehow, were his moccasins.
~ Lynne Reid Banks
I do not think that it is naïve to think that it is the tiny, particular acts of love and joy which are going to swing the balance, rather than general, impersonal charities.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
in each of those minute bowls rested a silver spoon! "So little!" marveled Lorrie. "They are carved from cherry stones, my dear.
~ Andre Norton
The though revives in him the oldest memory of his life. A child sees a door closing: without knowing who it is that has just left, he senses it is someone he loves with all his tiny, still mute being.
~ Andreï Makine
I think in a 1980s comedy version, Steve Martin would be a Pilgrim who's, like, cursed by a witch and time-travels and ends up very, very tiny living inside my skull. And the witch is Lily Tomlin and she's immortal and now she's running an oil company I work for or something.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Together, we looked down at the tiny house, the sole thing on this vast, flat surface. Like the only person living on the moon. It could be either lonely or peaceful, depending on how you looked at it. It's a start, I said.
~ Sarah Dessen
So much hanging on just these things, tiny increments that together build a life. Like words build a story, and what had Ted said? One word can change the entire world
~ Sarah Dessen
Just behind his jaw bones a tiny movement was perceptible, like the movement of gills in a fish.
~ John Collier
Some tiny creature, mad with wrath, is coming nearer on the path.
~ Edward Gorey
I am a tiny seashell that has secretly drifted ashore and carries the sound of the ocean surging through its body.
~ Edward Hirsch
Splendor awaits in minute proportions.
~ Edward O. Wilson
Tiny bee, thou honey-birdling, Lord of all the forest flowers, Fly away and gather honey, Bring to me the forest-sweetness,
~ Elias Lönnrot
Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.
~ Antonio Porchia
What a tiny part of the boundless abyss of time has been allotted to each of us – and this is soon vanished in eternity; what a tiny part of the universal substance and the universal soul; how tiny in the whole earth the mere clod on which you creep. Reflecting on all this, this nothing important other than active pursuit where your own nature leads and passive acceptance of what universal nature brings.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Asia, Europe are mere nooks of the universe. Every ocean is a drop in the universe: Mount Athos a spadeful of earth in the universe. The whole of present time is a pin-prick of eternity. All things are tiny, quickly changed, evanescent.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.
~ Diane Ackerman
Remember always," he said, "that nothing is as precious to us as the magnificent gift of life. Let the moon and the stars always remind you of this—that though we are tiny creatures in this universe, we are filled with life.
~ Anne Rice
we are blessed to be tiny beings in this universe. We are blessed to feel momentous because we are larger than these grains of sand.
~ Anne Rice
nothing is as precious to us as the magnificent gift of life. Let the moon and the stars always remind you of this—that though we are tiny creatures in this universe, we are filled with life.
~ Anne Rice
But we are blessed to be tiny beings in this universe. We are blessed to feel momentous because we are larger than these grains of sand.
~ Anne Rice