Quotes About Connection

I pitied myself for having no door until I met a man with no dividers.

Man was made to lead with his chin; he is worth knowing only with his guard down, his head up and his heart rampant on his sleeve.

If your record doesn't sell that well, man, who cares? All the satisfaction I need... comes when I step out onstage and see the people. That's awesome. I love that.

Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation.

Man must move to things, to non-human matter- There is nowhere else to go.

The seed must move to the soil; the tree must turn to the sun. The river must leave its source to reach the sea. And man must forget man, the maker, in order to make the world.

Men don't need linguistic talent; they just need courage and words.

Photography is the only "language" understood in all parts of the world, and, bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family of man.

If man was what he ought to be, he would be adored by the animals.

When I first met my girlfriend, I was super intimidated. I wanted to impress her. I was thinking, Don't mess this up, man. You've gotta play your cards exactly right.

All that man has to say or do that can possibly concern mankind is in some shape or other to tell the story of his love-to sing, and, if he is fortunate and keeps alive, he will be forever in love.

Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind.

It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.

I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is thinking of me. He is a different sort of man, that's all.

I would that I were worthy to be any man's Friend.

What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?

The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs.

When I would go a-visiting, I find that I go off the fashionable street,--not being inclined to change my dress,--to where man meets man, and not polished shoe meets shoe.

We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods.

I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse.

Every man is entitled to come to Cattle-Show, even a transcendentalist; and for my part I am more interested in the men than in the cattle.

A man has not seen a thing who has not felt it.

Inexpressibly beautiful appears the recognition by man of the least natural fact, and the allying his life to it.

A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.