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41 " Farmers base their livelihoods on raising crops. But farmers do not make plants grow. They don't attach the roots, glue on the petals, or color the fruit. The plant grows itself. Farmers and gardeners provide the conditions for growth. Good farmers know what those conditions are, and bad ones don't. "
― Ken Robinson , The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
42 " Meditation is the glue that holds our mind, body, and spirit together "
43 " Corporate anthropologist Karen Stephenson argues that though trust is the natural glue of human connection since prehistoric times, it is mostly absent in modern hierarchies—especially in government, where vertical silos compete with and undermine one another, often within the same bureaucracy. "
― Anne-Marie Slaughter , The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World
44 " Trust is the glue of life. "
45 " Sometimes a person can say I’m sorry a thousand times and that glue will never dry. "
― Stephanie Kallos , Broken for You
46 " She lost much of her appetite. At night, an invisible hand kept shaking her awake every few hours. Grief was physiological, a disturbance of the blood. Sometimes a whole minute would pass in nameless dread - the bedside clock ticking, the blue moonlight coating the window like glue - before she`d remember the brutal fact that had caused it. "
― Jeffrey Eugenides , The Marriage Plot
47 " Because I know you, Percy Jackson. In many ways, you are impulsive, but when it comes to your friends, you are as constant as a compass needle. You are unswervingly loyal, and you inspire loyalty. You are the glue that will unite the seven. "
― Rick Riordan , The Son of Neptune (The Heroes of Olympus, #2)
48 " The glue between the horn that pushes and the sinew that pulls. The glue gets ignored, but you know, Ahai, up to half of a bow is glue. I suspect Ogodoi is the son I can least afford to lose. "
― Bryn Hammond , Imaginary Kings (Amgalant Two)
49 " Physical attraction did its part to glue them together, but something stronger than sexual attraction sealed the bond. When men and women grow apart, it is for the same reason they are drawn together; because they are finally, inherently too different. Friendships among women, on the other hand, were burdened by similarity. "
― Galt Niederhoffer , The Romantics
50 " Over-communicating is the glue that holds a high-performing team together and keeps them focused in the same direction. And, it circles back to clarity. Without good, consistent communication, you don’t have clarity. "
51 " When I was a boy, that was all I wanted—to grow a pair of wings and get up into the sky. I had a basement full of failed wing projects. Boards and capes and motors, even a pile of found feathers I once tried to glue together with a bottle of Elmer’s; you should have seen your grandmother’s face. But I never got any higher than the backyard fence I’d launch from. I never got inside a cloud. Your raven did. "
― Beth Kephart , Undercover
52 " When you get your heart broken, other people can help you pick the pieces up, but only you can glue the pieces back together. "
53 " Readers are the glue that binds the books together. "
― J.E.B. Spredemann
54 " Integrity is the glue that holds our way of life together. What our young people want to see in their elders is integrity, honesty, truthfulness, and faith. What they hate most of all is hypocrisy and phoniness . . . Let them see us doing what we would like them to do. "
― Billy Graham , Billy Graham in Quotes
55 " When I feel broken, I cry like the monsoons; and when I glue the pieces back together, I swell and surge like the sea. And then I gradually become tranquil, peaceful, calm... "
56 " Find a strong glue and stick yourself to honesty! You shall feel like a wind, so light and so free! "
57 " At this period, too, Leningraders resorted to their most desperate food substitutes, scraping dried glue from the underside of wallpaper and boiling up shoes and belts. (Tannery processes had changed, they discovered, since the days of Amundsen and Nansen, and the leather remained tough and inedible.) "
― Anna Reid , Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944
58 " Kintsugi is a pottery technique. When something breaks, like a vase, they glue it back together with melted gold. Instead of making the cracks invisible, they make them beautiful. To celebrate the history of the object. What it's been through. And I was just... Thinking of us like that. My heart full of gold veins, instead of cracks. "
― Leah Raeder , Cam Girl
59 " No amount of soul searching would fix my past. There was no magical Band-Aid I could stick on my heart, no special glue I could use to make myself whole again. I had shattered to pieces like a fragile vase on concrete; some fragments could be roughly cobbled back together, but many of my vital parts had simply turned to dust, pulverized and scattered by the first gust of wind. "
― Julie Johnson , Like Gravity
60 " This next song is about when you get your heart broken and you try your best to glue it back together and you wake up one morning and you’re so happy because you realize, Oh my God, the tape’s holding! "
― Sara Quin