I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life – but there was no one to tell me.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERWhen I touch that flower, I am not merely touching that flower. I am touching infinity. That little flower existed long before there were human beings on this earth. It will continue to exist for thousands, yes, millions of years to come.
More George Washington Carver Quotes
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It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.
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Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.
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God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His.
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Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
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Believe. The promise of God are real. They are as real, as solid, yes infinitely more solid than this table which the materialist so thoroughly believes in. If you would only believe, O ye of little faith.
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Education is understanding relationships.
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Whatever you love opens its secrets to you.
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God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?
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I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.
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Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
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Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
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I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn’t interest me one single a bit.
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We have become ninety-nine percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.
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There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish.
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One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.
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