Cornerstones

Quotations, Various

Cornerstones highlights thought-provoking quotes from notable folks.

If there's one thing I'm good at, it's gathering people together to do something fun.
Dave Grohl

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
Matthew 18:20 (KJV)

This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.
Alice Waters

A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen

We gather together to ask the Lord's blessing; / He chastens and hastens his will to make known; / The wicked oppressing now cease from distressing; / Sing praises to his Name; he forgets not his own.
Anonymous, Hymn, 1625

Yet meet we shall, and part, and meet again, Where dead men meet on lips of living men.
Samuel Butler

You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life.
Bruce Springsteen

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
Lord Byron

O may I join the choir invisible / Of those immortal dead who live again / In minds made better by their presence.
George Eliot

Great things are done when men and mountains meet; This is not done by jostling in the street.
William Blake

The things that make me happiest in the whole world are going on the occasional picnic, either with my children or with my partner; big family gatherings; and being able to go to the grocery store -- if I can get those things in, I'm doing good.
Kate Winslet

When shall we three meet again? / In thunder, lightning, or in rain? / When the hurlyburly's done, / When the battle's lost and won.
William Shakespeare

When they are alone, they want to be with others, and when they are with others, they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
Gertrude Stein

By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
John Dickinson

You see much more of your children once they leave home.
Lucille Ball

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