There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.    From LearnThat.org.  [Christopher Morley (1890-1957).]

Verb (used without object) : to yearn for a quiet vacation. ,They yearned over their delicate child.    From Dictionary.com. 

Of course, my immediate yearning is to eat some eggplant.    From Wordnik.com.  [11/12/2005] Reference

She acts immature, lies and does not represent the change thne next generation in yearning for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Preston: Top Clinton supporters ready to help Obama] Reference

All who yearn -- "yearning" -- dangerous, tremulous emotion; mixing desire and idealism with the invitation to war.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Bromwich: New York Times to America: Stay the Course in Iraq] Reference

It’s just sometimes the mommy yearning is stronger than the common sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Future By Thirds | Her Bad Mother] Reference

I'm interested in the idea of yearning and how we yearn for something in our lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vickie Karp: Third Screen: A Big HBO Series About a Woman Named Precious] Reference

Although Kaminski was "comfortable" at the car safety plant, AutoLiv, and grateful for a steady paycheck, he recalls yearning to do more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unemployment Was 'A Blessing,' Says Former Autoworker] Reference

His speechless yearning is.    From Wordnik.com.  [New FIC...just because...BEDTIME STORY] Reference

MOm – waiting for the yearning is good advice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Let Me Know When I Am Done | Her Bad Mother] Reference

(There is a "yearning," Marr says, to believe that it's not really our fault).    From Wordnik.com.  [Questions for the climate change brigade to answer] Reference

Do you know anyone who's walking around "yearning" to be "led" by Mrs. Clinton?.    From Wordnik.com.  [All the Rage] Reference

A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Meaning of Liff]

I sense the same kind of yearning today, the same kind of hunger to move on and move America forward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teddy Kennedy's Speech For Obama: "It Is Time Again For A New Generation Of Leadership"] Reference

And I detect in Alex a kind of yearning to see if he can do something to try and divide the Democratic part.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 21, 2008] Reference

"You guys with Viking blood may have some kind of yearning for all this misery, but it just leaves me cold.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Crusader Gold]

Mr. Garner said that while he has "loved every minute" of his time at the NYTBR, he has been "yearning" to write reviews more regularly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Longtime Times Book Review Senior Editor Dwight Garner to Join Kakutani and Maslin in Daily Paper] Reference

Arthur, a more cordial kind of yearning toward our young prince of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna St. Ives] Reference

But I am not "yearning" for some archetypal End of Days, because that's not what we face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference

"All his work is about a kind of yearning for love and acceptance," Evans told me this week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Standard - Home] Reference

Her antelope eyes expressed a kind of yearning eagerness to do all she could without a moment's delay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin] Reference

yearning was strong in her, that yearning which is common to all the world, though so variously translated.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Prisoner in Fairyland] Reference

We did not know it was to be our last happy Christmas together, but war had already given to joy a kind of yearning anguish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soho the Dog] Reference

I don't think the film is about "natives" or colonialism or going back to nature or any kind of yearning for native anything.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comments for Savage Minds] Reference

"And if you can't share that with your loved ones, that creates a kind of yearning to be with someone who was up there with you.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

Ironically, had he not once been estranged from his G‑d, he would never have come to the kind of yearning for Him that he feels now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chabad.org Weekly Magazine [ Chukat-Balak 5769 - July 3, 2009 ]] Reference

There does seem to be a yearning for simpler answers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can Powell Reach Them?] Reference

This majestic sight triggers an acute yearning for a nature walk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Future Of Computers] Reference

I think the young people are really yearning for something different.    From Wordnik.com.  ['We'll Not Be Deterred'] Reference

And there is a yearning for that in the soul that is deep and ancient.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cast Of Characters] Reference

Visits are arranged out of necessity, when the yearning becomes too much.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Power of Two] Reference

What this yearning for comfort means for design is just beginning to emerge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nesting Instincts] Reference

And we can stop yearning for that elegant, entertaining novel that used to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Books: The Young And The Feckless] Reference

Captain Pecina does not have his commanding officer's yearning to make history.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grunt's War] Reference

There may well be a public yearning for such qualities, after the Clinton tumult.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saxophone Vs. Sacrifice] Reference

It definitely captivated the heart and soul of this land-lover yearning for adventure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call] Reference

Democrats have got to project a plan for the future and not just a yearning for the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [LESSONS FROM NEW ENGLAND] Reference

Altogether, it's scarcely a promising start for the EU's once sacred yearning for "an ever-closer union.".    From Wordnik.com.  [European Union: Divided They Stand] Reference

Some new buildings have gone up, but not a great deal has really changed -- except in the author's restless, yearning heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bearing Witness In The Twilight] Reference

While Americans have always been incurable collectors, their embrace of TV oldies seems inspired by a singularly collective yearning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Play It Again And Again, Sam] Reference