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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Meditation upon the unknown Thought He thought was real meditation. No, meditation is not and cannot be On any thought. Meditation is a conscious withdrawal From the thought-world. Meditation is the place Where Reality, Divinity and Immortality Can each claim their own Perennial existence-light. -- Sri Chinmoy
Falsehood is a perennial spring. -- Edmund Burke
These are classic, perennial ideals we are dealing with. -- Rob Morrow
The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem. -- Gary Lineker
I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student. -- Pat Oliphant
Conspiracies are a perennial favorite for television producers because there is always a receptive audience. -- Michael Shermer
Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops. -- Margaret Atwood
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences. -- E. T. Bell
To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy. -- Gore Vidal
Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins. -- Major Taylor
Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established. -- Wendell Berry
I think Nick Markakis is a perennial All-Star, and nobody knows about him. I think people are learning about how good he is. -- Cal Ripken, Jr.
Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue. -- Noam Chomsky
The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants. -- Wendell Berry
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration. -- DeWitt Clinton
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation. -- Walter Lippmann
I have raised beds, perennial beds, cut flower beds. I have an island on a pond that's just covered in peonies. I have an herb garden, tons of vegetables, raspberries. I have everything. I'm a green guy. -- Steve Zahn
The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning. -- Anne-Marie Slaughter
Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me. -- Bryan Magee
The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing. -- Jon Meacham
I think that one of the nice things about the Yellow Submarine movie is that it seems to be perennial. People enjoy watching from each generation. And it was like the Beatles themselves. You know the Beatles seem to find new audience each time another generation comes along. -- George Martin
There's a perennial debate about whether the propagandistic tripe produced by establishment media outlets is shaped more by evil or by stupidity. Personally, I think it's both: a healthy dose of each is needed. The system design is malicious, while those who serve as its public face are generally vacant. -- Glenn Greenwald
My mother was a secretary that elevated herself to having her own international company, my father elevated himself to an NBA player and perennial all-star. So I learned from my parents that it's about hard work, about both of them getting their education, putting people first and leading a life of integrity. -- Brian J. White
If you think about it, candidate Obama, Sen. Obama, was running on sort of long-run economic issues, like restoring prosperity to the middle class, dealing with the perennial problem of health care in the United States. He talked a lot about the budget deficit, about the need to transition to clean energy. -- Christina Romer
Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes. -- James Surowiecki
The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
I am very much a person who appreciates perennial things. Things like a Lacoste shirt, a Clarks desert boot, Persol sunglasses and Vans shoes that have been the same forever. There are certain things that once you find it, you like it and it's done. I like Italian clothing, like suits from Battistoni and I have a shirt by Piero Albertelli. -- Roman Coppola
The perennial gale of creative destruction -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived. -- Bertrand Russell
Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers. -- Paul Tillich
The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
People souls - perennial loners. They're loners like stray stars. -- Antoni Lange
Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions. -- Aldous Huxley
There is no season and no reason for love. Love is not seasonal its perennial. -- Amit Abraham
Wisdom may be perennial, but to see its relevance we must see it lived out. -- Eknath Easwaran
Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble. -- George Santayana
I don't think the people of Chicago should be robbed of their birthright to be perennial losers. -- Gene Weingarten
Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man. -- Bill Mollison
The true definition of a perennial: Any plant which, had it lived, would have bloomed year after year. -- Henry Beard
The most twisted but perennial of American myths is that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. (p. 174) -- Robin R. Meyers
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Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass. -- Max Ehrmann
Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature. -- Karen Russell
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences. -- E. T. Bell
As an atheist, you cannot fully make sense of the music, you have no explanation for the perennial motion and rhythm. -- Martin Walser
Tooth decay was a perennial national problem that meant a mouthful of silver for patients, and for dentists a pocketful of gold -- Claudia Wallis
Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself. -- Laura Riding
Patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it. -- Cornel West
A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions. -- Frederick Seitz
I love touring. But it's super nice to have a new reason to play shows that isn't based around that perennial cycle of album/tour/promotion. -- Ted Leo
For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October. -- Hal Borland
The Lord's way is the only way for us to experience enduring happiness. His way brings sustained comfort to our souls and perennial peace to our homes. -- Russell M. Nelson
At last, psychology gets serious about glee, fun, and happiness. Martin Seligman has given us a gift-a practical map for the perennial quest for a flourishing life. -- Daniel Goleman
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration." -- DeWitt Clinton
A pen and a notebook and a reasonable amount of discrimination will change a journey from a mere annual into a perennial, its pleasures and pains renewable at will. -- Freya Stark
The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
The dust of thirty years hung lifeless in shafts of morning light, the gilding of perfectly prim pages shone incanescent, the shriek of rolling ladders mourned in perennial soliloquy. -- Michelle Franklin
Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world. -- Thomas Carlyle
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride. They have yielded to the perennial temptation. -- Walter Lippmann
We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic. -- E. Merrill Root
Who cares, who cares. The perennial adolescent riposte. I cared, of course. I cared what people thought. I always did care. Unlike Laura, I have never had the courage of my convictions. -- Margaret Atwood
The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own. -- Michel de Montaigne
In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All happiness comes from awareness. The more we are conscious the deeper the joy. Acceptance of pain, non-resistance, courage and endurance - these open deep and perennial sources of real happiness, true bliss. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I wish my nose was smaller and that I was a little taller. I also had this perennial pimple problem, so I felt people were just being polite when they said I was beautiful. -- Madhuri Dixit
I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error. -- Sara Bonnett Stein
This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the craving for sympathy that every human sufferer feels. -- Leo Tolstoy
More broadly across time and cultures, it seems, one perennial piece of advice to father has been the importance of acting tenderly toward their children. The New Father, it turns out, is an old story. -- David Blankenhorn
Fame is the responsibility, the perennial discipline, the concubine who solicits and imbibes, bit by bit, the love, the relations, the serenity, and the soul, leaving behind the subaqueous plaudits that pinch to the core.. -- Himmilicious

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