Noun Quotes (page 2)

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• parents
• learning
• job

parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job, the learning curve is, well, fairly flat. Jodi Picoult

• struggle
• perfect
• personal

Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now. Fred Rogers

• dead
• lost
• mindfulness

I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child Adrienne Rich

• people
• die
• saying

Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose. C. S. Lewis

• ignorance
• influence
• writing

Whatever language we speak, before we begin a sentence we have an almost infinite choice of words to use. A, The, They, Whereas, Having, Then, To, Bison, Ignorant, Since, Winnemucca, In, It, As . . . Any word of the immense vocabulary of English may begin an English sentence. As we speak or write the sentence, each word influences the choice of the next its syntactical function as noun, verb, adjective, etc., its person and number if a pronoun, its tense and number as a verb, etc. ,etc. ... Ursula K. Le Guin

• horse
• time
• words

And there was never a better time to delve for pleasure in language than the sixteenth century, when novelty blew through English like a spring breeze. Some twelve thousand words, a phenomenal number, entered the language between 1500 and 1650, about half of them still in use today, and old words were employed in ways not tried before. Nouns became verbs and adverbs; adverbs became adjectives. Expressions that could not have grammatically existed before - such as 'breathing one's last' and... Bill Bryson

• poetry
• verb
• poetry is

Poetry is all nouns and verbs. Marianne Moore

• acts
• theater
• theaters

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place. Martha Graham

• god
• purpose
• properly

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper. R. Buckminster Fuller

• god
• verb
• nouns

God is a verb, not a noun. R. Buckminster Fuller

• god
• verbs
• seem

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper. R. Buckminster Fuller

• god
• active
• most

Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all. Mary Daly

• love
• feeling
• interaction

But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun. Bell Hooks

• words
• languages
• european

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages. Benjamin Whorf

• art
• thoughts
• thoughtfulness

I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun. Yoko Ono