#link

God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#chain #first #god #last #link

I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#between #civilized #civilized man #found #higher

When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family. ↗

— Lance Loud

#family #friends #grown #link #out

But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#become #corruption #course #deeper #destroyed

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man. ↗

— Marcel Marceau

#between #communicate #link #man #silence

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#bluff #cowards #eye #liable #like

We deny and have always denied having the slightest link with al-Qaeda. ↗

— Aslan Maskhadov

#always #denied #deny #having #link

But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#children #comes #friendships #gay #having

Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents had been wardens of the Quaker Hostel there and where she had gone back as secretary to Gilbert Murray. ↗

— James Meade

#been #close #geneva #gilbert #gone

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. ↗

— Herman Melville

#always #aught #death #less #life