Sentence examples for In a proverb from inspiring English sources

When I asked how old she was, Meena responded in a proverb: "I am like a tulip in the desert.

The American Indians put it nicely in a proverb that has been adopted as a slogan by today's environmentalists: "We do not inherit the earth from our parents.

Comprehension, reasoning, and planning can be tested, for example, by asking about the similarities and differences between two objects (e.g., child and dwarf, wall and fence) or by asking the patient to explain the message or moral contained in a proverb (e.g., "People in glass houses should not throw stones").

* I practiced a traditional way of feeding as stated in a proverb: 'small ruminants need hay, large ruminants need grazing' (DT14).

In China, a proverb, "Swap child, make food", referred to the practice in periods of extreme famine of swapping a daughter's corpse with that of a neighbour's and boiling it into soup.

He couldn't stop thinking about David, and thought of him in terms of a proverb he had once heard from a Mexican man who had worked for him: "You have only one mother.

"In Pashto, we have a proverb that you cannot hold two watermelons in one hand," Hikmat told me.

In southern Ethiopia they have a proverb: 'Life is in mobility'.

"There is a proverb in Afghanistan," he said.

In North Korea there is a proverb: "To see is to believe".

"In Arabic, there's a proverb: If you are shooting, don't complain about being shot," he said.