Preparing

Famous quotes containing the word preparing:

“I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, any more than I would have every acre of earth cultivated: part will be tillage, but the greater part will be meadow and forest, not only serving an immediate use, but preparing a mould against a distant future, by the annual decay of the vegetation which it supports.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Machismo makes no provision for preparing lunch, doing the laundry, or minding the baby.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)