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.

Catherine Hardwicke

Back in medieval times, Victorian repression hadn't come in yet. People were bawdy and wild and more in touch with their true natures. If you look at the Bosch paintings or Bruegel, you see, when people are dancing, they're totally cutting loose.

Alan Boss

Normally when you think of flea markets, you think of sweat socks and T-shirts. We're looking at young designers, art, photography, nothing mass-produced. We want to be cutting edge and unique.

Trilby Lundberg

Dealers are losing their profit margins, cutting prices to get sales,

Kari Fluegel

The shuttle is still on the cutting edge.

Rashad Anderson

A day hasn't gone by where I don't think about it. There's never a day I don't think about cutting down those nets again, the feeling we had in '04. We had a taste of it two years ago and we want it again.

Scott Briggs

Once we started making things more difficult for them, I don't think it was a coincidence that all of sudden we were cutting a little harder and we were screening a little better.

Ellen Russell

Sometimes right-of-center parties like deficits because it justifies cutting things. It can be very politically convenient.

Richard Preston

Scientific facts are often described in textbooks as if they just sort of exist, like nickels someone picked up on the street. But science at the cutting edge, conducted by sharp minds probing deep into nature, is not about self-evident facts. It is about mystery and not knowing. It is about taking huge risks.

Marjorie Brody

Say, 'I'm sorry,' only if you're not cutting off a speaker. Otherwise wait until later to apologize.

Stephanie Scalessa

As a runner, the mental toughness Steven has is amazing.

Julie Burchill

As a militant troublemaker, I once wrote that it was the duty of every woman worthy of the description to upset men at least three times a day, on principle.

Liz Ryan

Are they all 50-year-old white men? Did they all come from the same set of companies?

Samuel Barnett

Are men and women different creatures? Do we feel things differently? Being a man, I can't know what a woman feels.

Bible Bible

And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick.

Leroy Foster

The motivation wasn't there. I don't know if it was the layoff, but they just weren't ready to play. The mental mistakes, the turnovers, everything just showed they weren't prepared.

Megan Callahan

Roose has tremendous physical and mental toughness, leadership, skills, and experience.

Carol Hutchins

Samantha's one of the most mentally tough people I've ever met,

Lindsey Graham

putting too much pressure on the men and women in uniform.