#frog

I am by nature a person suspicious of the economic machine that feeds me. And yet I am a captive of that economic machine, and my mind is structured by its lessons and demands. I consume its wealth with zest. I drive a truck, watch a color television, and write on a computer, but I cannot overcome the feeling that these objects and the industrial culture that produced them are temporary things, a kind of fat beast feeding on the bounty of the earth that will starve to death within the next century, or at least be severely diminished. ↗

— Charles Bowden

#death

I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog. ↗

— Toni Braxton

#frog #i #trying

I grew up like Huck Finn, always outdoors, exploring, collecting frogs - there was space everywhere. I want my kids to experience that too. I love being outside. ↗

— Josh Duhamel

#being #collecting #everywhere #experience #exploring

Some of these bulls are gonna' spin those cowboys so fast, they'll look like a frog in a blender. ↗

— Wayne White

#bulls #cowboys #fast #frog #gonna

I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into princes, whether that has a sort of insidious affect on rationality, I'm not sure. Perhaps it's something for research. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#allowed #back #childhood #fact #frogs

I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing. ↗

— Les Claypool

#brigade #cool #frog #i #imagery

I went into a French restaraunt and asked the waiter, 'Have you got frog's legs?' He said, 'Yes,' so I said, 'Well hop into the kitchen and get me a cheese sandwich.' ↗

— Tommy Cooper

#cheese #french #frog #get #got

Activities such as chanting, bowing, and sitting in zazen are not at all wasted, even when done merely formally, for even this superficial encounter with the Dharma will have some wholesome outcome at a later time. However, it must be said in the most unambiguous terms that this is not real Zen. To follow the Dharma involves a complete reorientation of one's life in such a way that one's activities are manifestations of, and are filled with, a deeper meaning. If it were not otherwise, and merely sitting in zazen were enough, every frog in the pond would be enlightened, as one Zen master said. Dōgen Zenji himself said that one must practice Zen with the attitude of a person trying to extinguish a fire in his hair. That is, Zen must be practiced with an attitude of single-minded urgency. ↗

— Francis Harold Cook

#dharma #focus #frogs #meditation #urgency

I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs. ↗

— William Joyce

#every #frogs #house #i #our

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#civilizing #frogs #makes #princes #process