Gathering Together Quotes:

We are a nation equally afraid of gathering together and being alone.

- Mira Grant

source: Mira Grant (2010). “Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.85, Hachette UK

topic: Together, Gathering, Gathering Together

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

- Helen Keller

source: "Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy". Book by Joseph P. Lash, 1980.

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Loyalty, Joint Efforts, Inspirational Team

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Success, Leadership, Individual Performance, Marriage Advice

When 'I' replaced with 'We', even the illness becomes wellness.

- Malcolm X

topic: Community, Wellness, Togetherness, Betterment, Gathering Together

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.

- Edwin Way Teale

source: "Autumn Across America". Book by Edwin Way Teale, 1956.

topic: Autumn, Men, Together, October And Fall, Summer To Fall

There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.

- Gail Simmons

topic: People, Together, Way, Gathering Together

To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.

- Ricky Nelson

topic: Song, Memories, Play, Lasting Friendship, Lifelong Friends

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

- George Carlin

topic: Nature, Philosophy, Stupid, Never Underestimate, Stupid Life

That is always our problem, not how to get control of people, but how all together we can get control of a situation.

- Mary Parker Follett

source: Mary Parker Follett (2013). “Freedom and Co-ordination (RLE: Organizations): Lectures in Business Organization”, p.24, Routledge

topic: People, Together, Problem, Gathering Together

This truth of the gathering together of God's children is in Scripture seen realised in various localities, and in each central locality the Christians resident therein composed but one body: Scripture is perfectly clear on that head.

- John Nelson Darby

topic: Christian, Children, Together, Locality, Gathering Together

I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.

- Scarlett Thomas

topic: Together, Gathering, Obsession, Gathering Together

To be willing to live within the imagination is to commit oneself to the gathering together of the pieces that might begin to form a self. To avoid this territory is to avoid the encounters that might validate, inform, or enhance one's experience.

- Deena Metzger

source: Deena Metzger (2009). “Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Jou”, p.11, Harper Collins

topic: Self, Imagination, Together, Gathering Together

Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties.

- Robert Breault

topic: Party, Self, Shadow, Walking Alone, Gathering Together

In some perfect world where human nature is less messy and history less fraught, any and all people who had ever suffered discrimination would find common cause, gathering together under one big anti-bigotry banner.

- Frank Bruni

topic: People, Perfect, Together, Gathering Together

To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering together, of recapitulation, of totalization.

- Paul Ricoeur

source: Paul Ricoeur (1974). “The Conflict of Interpretations”, p.423, Northwestern University Press

topic: Religious, Men, Church, Recapitulation, Gathering Together

The endless, useless urge to look on life comprehensively, to take a bird's-eye view of ourselves and judge the dimensions of what we have or have not done: this is life as landscape, or life as résumé. But life is incremental, and though a worthwhile life is a gathering together of all that one is, good and bad, successful and not, the paradox is that we can never really see this one thing that all of our increments (and decrements, I suppose) add up to.

- Christian Wiman

source: "My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer". Book by Christian Wiman, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2013.

topic: Eye, Successful, Views, Gathering Together

I don't want to start a movement that mirrors religion. I don't want to create the church of the non-believers where I'm the preacher and we're all gathering together and reciting things.

- Bill Maher

topic: Mirrors, Church, Together, Gathering Together

For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any book, however fair, is set before them, though they perceive that there is something written, are scarcely able to make out two consecutive words, but, when aided by glasses, begin to read distinctly, so Scripture, gathering together the impressions of Deity, which, till then, lay confused in our minds, dissipates the darkness, and shows us the true God clearly.

- John Calvin

source: John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.33, Lulu.com

topic: Confused, Book, Two, Consecutive, Gathering Together

pacifists lead a lonely life. Not even gathering together can take the place of that vast, warm sun of approval that is shed on motherhood, on law-abiding, on killing, and on making money. Someday will we come into our own? Well, motherhood may move into the shade. Law-abiding is going through a trauma. But killing and making money are good for a long, long time.

- Josephine Winslow Johnson

topic: Lonely, War, Moving, Lonely Life, Gathering Together