#verb

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#few #into #matter #much #proverb

My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#crossing #followed #girl #grandfather #grandmother

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#experience #long #long experience #proverbs #sentences

Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all. ↗

— Mary Daly

#dynamic #god #indeed #most #must

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval. ↗

— Phil Donahue

#become #child #criticism #important #important tools

I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb. ↗

— Robert Downey, Jr.

#heroic #i #i think #noun #things

Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#besides #key #many #treasure #unlocked

I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb. ↗

— Brian Eno

#i #rethink #surrender #verb #want

One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well. ↗

— Lev Yilmaz

#explain #felt #i #motivations #never

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#here #improper #me #noun #proper