Tom Robbins Quotes

Out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion amalgamation.

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

I've been on enough sports teams in my life to have experienced the magic of what can happen when a group of people care for and love each other.

I ask Liberians to pray so that God will bring peace and stability, and bring about unification to ourselves.

I'm the glue that holds everything together.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.

Trust is the glue that holds everything together.

Integration is a basic law of life; when we resist it, disintegration is the natural result, both inside and outside of us. Thus we come to the concept of harmony through integration.

How does a sesame seed stick to a bun? That's magical. There must be some sesame seed glue out there. Either that or they're adhesive on one side. Peel off the backing, place it on the bun.

she held her breath, and in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second she didn’t breathe, God would grant her another day

Love is basic for the very survival of mankind. I'm convinced that love is the only absolute ultimately; love is the highest good. He who loves has somehow discovered the meaning of ultimate reality. He who hates does not know God; he who hates has no knowledge of God. Love is the supreme unifying principle of life.

It was peace. Peace is when you would shake the hands of the people around you. And you knew peace was coming because the priest would say it five times rapid fire. He'd go, “My peace I leave, my peace I give to you. While we ate Reese's Pieces with the Lord. And I have a piece of lint in my peaceful eye"!

Football is mesmerizing, because it's a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as a team, not as an individual. Players bond whether they're black or white, much as soldiers do.

In the midst of her tears came the thought, "When people are in danger, they ask God to save them;" and, slipping down upon her knees, she said her prayer as she had never said it before, for when human help seems gone we turn to Him as naturally as lost children cry to their father, and feel sure that he will hear and answer them.

Love is a great glue, but there is no cement like mutual hate.

In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.

Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.

Love is the cause of unity in all things.

Loyalty is a cohesive force that forges individuals into a team.

Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.

It is a cliche, and it is also true, that humor springs from existential pain - from a need to blunt the awareness that life is essentially a fatal disease of unpredictable symptoms and unknown duration.

Ah, who will save me from existing? It's neither death nor life that I want.

Integrity is the glue that holds our way of life together.

I didn't believe in systems. Everything human was imperfect and ultimately absurd. What did I believe in then? In humor. In laughing at systems, at people, at one's self. In laughing even at one's need to laugh all the time. In seeing life as contradictory, many-sided, various, funny, tragic, and with moments of outrageous beauty. In seeing life as a fruitcake, including delicious plums and bad peanuts, but meant to be devoured hungrily all the same because you couldn't feast on the plums without also sometimes being poisoned by the peanuts.