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Tending to ourselves, we tend the world. Tending the world, we tend ourselves. -- Jack Kornfield
Tending 100-year-old vines, I've been fortunate to craft highly rated, small production, estate grown wines since 1998. A labor of love, our wines are sustainably farmed, carry the story of my family in every glass and are simply the most satisfying of all my personal endeavors. -- Michael Chiarello
We are all farmers tending a little part of the Lord's vineyard. -- Sheri L. Dew
Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough. -- Karel Capek
My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees! -- Carre Otis
Events like Hurricane Katrina and the Minnesota bridge collapse suggest a national infrastructure that has suffered from lack of tending. -- Nina Easton
I love America. I think it's the best country in the world. But I also think we're not tending to our sauce. -- Thomas Friedman
I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field... I was always tending to be in trouble. -- Peter Hollingworth
Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained. -- Carl Clinton Van Doren
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. -- Abraham Lincoln
I put forward a pretty general theory that financial markets are intrinsically unstable. That we really have a false picture when we think about markets tending towards equilibrium. -- George Soros
Goods move in response to price differences from points of low to points of higher price, the movement tending to obliterate the price difference and come to rest. -- Frank Knight
In the past, a great library was the result of librarians functioning as guardians of culture, tending and caring, selecting and recommending works that maintained and nurtured a cultural heritage. -- David Gerrold
I think a common misperception about attuning and tending to a child's needs so constantly is that they don't grow in their independence, but I think that the opposite is true. -- Alanis Morissette
I have considered the subject of missions nearly a year and have found my mind gradually tending to a deep conviction that it is my duty personally to engage in this service. -- Adoniram Judson
I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off. -- Albert J. Nock
But tending machinery was one thing; defining what we were trying to do and why we were doing it, and developing ways to measure how well the job was done - this was something else again. -- Elliot Richardson
It takes courage, of course, to step out of the fray, as it takes courage to do anything that's necessary, whether tending to a loved one on her deathbed or turning away from that sugarcoated doughnut. -- Pico Iyer
Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth. -- Freeman Dyson
Across much of the developing world, by the time she is 12, a girl is tending house, cooking, cleaning. She eats what's left after the men and boys have eaten; she is less likely to be vaccinated, to see a doctor, to attend school. -- Nancy Gibbs
If Romney explains why where we are with Obama is unacceptable, why whither we are tending is even worse - and why his own alternative path forward is superior - then we trust the American people to make the right choice in November. -- Bill Kristol
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. -- John Keats
I mention this fact as tending to support what I have often heard stated, namely, that a shark's sense of smell is so keen that, if men ever bathe in seas where they are found, a shark is almost sure to appear directly afterwards. -- George Grey
In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally. -- Cesare Beccaria
As a warning to parents, I mention that my father preferred me to my brother, which was very injurious to both of us. To me, as tending to produce in my mind a feeling of self-elevation; and to my brother, by creating in him a dislike both towards my father and me. -- George Muller
So much luck! I'm not putting myself down, I'm not saying I don't have talent - I must have, to have got this far - but I honestly believe that some of the greatest actors in America are tending bar and waiting tables and driving taxis, and it will never happen for them. -- John Mahoney
They say that Grandma Moses had several canvases going at the same time. Maybe it was a way for her to catch up with the time she missed while raising children and tending the farm. Like Grandma, I tend to have more than one poem or fiction going at a time. For me, it's just the way I think. -- Marge Simon
I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office. -- John Boehner
Compassion is a Shepherd, Always tending his herd. -- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Tradition is tending the flame, not worshiping the ashes. -- Gustav Mahler
We must ask where we are and whither we are tending. -- Abraham Lincoln
Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing, tending to make man shallow or insane. -- Karl Shapiro
Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending. -- Ray Bradbury
Nourish your eye and spirit with inspiring things. They will bloom with your tending. -- Sark
Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending. -- Barbara Holland
The cyborg is now the ideal to which all our most advanced technology is tending. -- Bryan Appleyard
Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life. -- Alfred North Whitehead
If I had to depend on what I actually get from sales, I'd be tending bar between sets, -- Iggy Pop
A Warrior also knows that the fool who gives advice about someone else's garden is not tending his own plants. -- Paulo Coelho
Suppressing your hurts is like not tending to a bullet wound. Eventually you will bleed out. Dont numb pain, express it. -- lecrae
It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living. -- Dean Koontz
Think I have made a terrible mistake going to college. Have decided to become a shepherd and spend my days tending to flocks of goats -- Scott Frost
He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat. -- Ian Mcewan
Reeducation needs careful tending, like an English lawn. Even one moment of negligence, and the weeds crop up again ~ those indestructible weeds of historical truth. -- Sefton Delmer
It opens our eyes to many quite weird possibilities about disease that most medical scientists, tending to be unaware of current evolutionary thought, don't think of. -- Paul W. Ewald
The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains. -- Herbert Spencer
Passion is of the nature of seed, and finds nourishment within, tending to a predominance which determines all currents towards itself, and makes the whole life its tributary." -- George Eliot
But we do now receive a certain portion of His Spirit, tending towards perfection, and preparing us for incorruption, being little by little accustomed to receive and bear God -- Irenaeus of Lyons
Curiosity is the hair of our habit tending to stand on end. It rarely happens that our attention is not stained in greater or lesser degree by this animal element. -- Samuel Beckett
The nature of consciousness is to point beyond itself. It is a tending toward or pointing to... Since consciousness points beyond itself, it is in its very being a self-transcendence. -- William Barrett
Love is a delicate plant that needs constant tending and nurturing, and this cannot be done by snorting at the adored object like a gas explosion and calling her friends lice. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Hate often separates those who ought to aid one another, since they are tending toward the same goal, and sympathy binds men together who are forced to do battle with one another. -- Guglielmo Ferrero
Hope, how she had grown to hate the word. It was an insideious seed planted inside a person's soul, surviving covertly on little tending, then flowering so spectacularly that none could help but cherish it. -- Kate Morton

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