Famous Quotes & Sayings

Renee Shepherd

Sometimes a self-sown flower will surprise me. I may have thought I didn't want anything there, but when they start to bloom, I'm enchanted.

Granth Sahib

The seed, planted out season, does not germinate; it does not produce flower or fruit

Arthur Conan Doyle

There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

Bai Ling

I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.

Arthur Koestler

Zen is to religion what a Japanese "rock garden" is to a garden. Zen knows no god, no afterlife, no good and no evil, as the rock-garden knows no flowers, herbs or shrubs. It has no doctrine or holy writ: its teaching is transmitted mainly in the form of parables as ambiguous as the pebbles in the rock-garden which symbolise now a mountain, now a fleeting tiger. When a disciple asks "What is Zen?", the master's traditional answer is "Three pounds of flax" or "A decaying noodle" or "A toilet stick" or a whack on the pupil's head.

Bertrand Russell

a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of men in whom every vital impulse slowly withers as though they were cut flowers in a vase.

Jane Goodall

It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don't suppose anybody really understands yet.

Carson McCullers

Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.

Carol Burnett

If you see a kid in school, who is a little shy ... that's when you should reach out. When you do, you are going to open up a flower and discover something wonderful.

Bible Bible

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

Serj Tankian

As a kid, you see something that you know in your heart is true. Its such a huge hypocrisy that it makes you think, Well, if this is a truth that I know about thats not officially accepted, at least in this country, then how many other truths are there that are under the surface that need to come out?

Timothy Waterhouse

A way to a woman's heart is kindness and tenderness!

Gladys Pozza

As I volunteered more and more, I realized that I liked that more. That's where my heart went out. I spent a lot of time volunteering and being involved with the church.

Joey Estrella

Our seniors have been the heart and soul of our team all year. The way they've played, they'll be tough to replace, but we're looking for our underclassmen and recruits to hopefully step up next year.

Patricia Shea

Normally it just touches their heart that somebody cared.

Source Unknown

The more a man takes the needs of others on his own heart, the more he must take his own heart to God.

Dick Cheney

(The monitor) detected some minor periods, very short periods, one to two seconds each, of rapid heart rate,

Edgar Watson

Any man who will look into his heart and honestly write what he sees there, will find plenty of readers.

Hanan Ashrawi

Barak is going to the other extreme, he is giving the settlers too much influence, too much power.

Kasey Kahne

As Mark was reeling me in, I was doing all I could to go fast. I was giving about all I had those last 30 laps.

Ron Gardenhire

Radke is going to be in the rotation, Silva is going to be in the rotation, Lohse is going to be in the rotation and we're just trying to get them through it. We're in the first month of the season, so you've got to keep giving these guys the ball. What they've done around here and how well they've done around here for such a long time, you just have to keep giving them the ball.

Patricia Fripp

People who concentrate on giving good service always get more personal satisfaction as well as better business. How can we get better service? One way is by trying to see ourselves as others do.

Donna Karan

No question about it. I think she's told us that. You know it's not about us dictating, just giving her tools for her to do it.

Emily Francis

Northwestern has been scoring a lot of goals, so I think they will be a handful for our defense, but they also have been giving up of a lot of goals. If our backline comes ready to play and our frontline starts scoring some goals this weekend it will be great.

Debbie Murry

The money from the foundation, is not only giving us money for the extras - it's helping us with the necessities.

Michael Landis

Aren't they great? We've been giving them out to our customers.

Bobby Smith

Stuff like that happens in baseball. We have been playing well and when you are giving it all you have sometimes there is just nothing you can do about it. You just have to get ready for tomorrow and get back to playing well.