Quotes about Parts
ALLEGER (ALLE'GER) n.s.[from allege.]He that alleges. Which narrative, if we may believe it as confidently as the famous alleger of it, Pamphilio, appears to do, would seem to argue, that there is, sometimes, no other principle requisite, than what may result from the lucky mixture of the parts of several bodies.Boyle.
— Samuel Johnson
We are parts of social and family ecosystems that are rightly structured to keep us from falling but also, more important, to show us how to fall and also how to learn from that very falling
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a property inside the horizon which no guy has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, this is, the poet.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is observed by Cicero, that men of the greatest and most shining parts are most actuated by ambition.
— Joseph Addison
One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).
— Soren Kierkegaard
As we take, in fact, a general view of the wonderful stream of our consciousness, what strikes us first is this different pace of its parts. Like a bird's life, it seems to be made of an alternation of flights and perchings.
— William James