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They are all implied from the founding, and are all quite venerable ways of going about the interpretive process.

John Harrison

You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.

Denise Levertov

Whenever you're in the same breath as the market leader and a brand as venerable as the NFL, that's a good thing.

Andrew Giangola

Study the teachings of the pine tree, the bamboo, and the plum blossom. The pine is evergreen, firmly rooted, and venerable. The bamboo is strong, resilient, unbreakable. The plum blossom is hardy, fragrant, and elegant.

Morihei Ueshiba

In a hamlet or in a forest, in the deep water or on the dry land, wherever venerable persons dwell, that place is delightful.

Friedrich Max Muller

Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Britain, to be quenched and trodden out on the simple altars they have raised?

Joseph Howe

I think what happens in this process is there is an initial search and so much work is required to satisfy the competing constituencies that once a list is assembled, few people want to give it up. Some of the names on the list are almost venerable by virtue of age and longevity. There is a certain comfort in going with what you know, but it may not be the best.

Douglas W. Kmiec

It's a hypothetical; it's a cautionary tale, ... I would say there is a pretty venerable tradition of movies and literature that presumed to say, 'Here is something that exists in the world,' and by extension or by exaggeration, let's imagine, let's push it to the next step.

Ed Zwick