Mould Quotes

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
Henry David Thoreau

Earth, Shall, Leaves

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
Samuel Butler

Thoughts, Spring, Lives

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.
Virginia Woolf

May, Support, View

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?
Thomas a Kempis

Yourself, Cannot, Wish

Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.
Larry Hagman

Great, Humble, Made

As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.
Lech Walesa

Future, Nation, Situation

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.
Doris Lessing

Women, Cannot, Fact

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
Edward Gibbon

Work, Long, Single

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
Charlotte Bronte

Nature, Different, Majority

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.
William Godwin

Strong, Doubt, Against

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
Willa Cather

Life, Art, Strong

If I didn't mould my reality then I'd still be in the ghetto where people like me are supposed to stay. You have to dream your way out of the nightmare.
will.i.am

Reality, Dream, Stay

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.
J. J. Abrams

Movies, Sports, Kids

I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.
Mark Haddon

Find, Big, Religious

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.
Ella Maillart

Acts, Refuse, Sentences

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.
Anita Brookner

Women, Home, Anyone

Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.
Josiah Royce

The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.
Joseph Pulitzer

Power, Future, Hands

So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
Edmund Waller

Writer, Whose, Vulgar

No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea.
Kim Jong Il

Working, Same, Influence

I always thought models had to fit a certain mould. I never thought I had what it takes. I'm too small and my look's pretty weird.
Devon Aoki

Thought, Small, Pretty

Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar

Life, Women, Men

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