Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billie Jean King

I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

Ben Harper

It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can't return from having an experience like that. The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.

Douglas Coupland

I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.

Adam Sandler

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

Douglas MacArthur

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

Debbi Fields

The greatest failure is not to try. Had I listened to all the people during the course of my life who said, "You can't. You'll fail. It won't work. You don't have...," I wouldn't be here today.

Reed Hastings

Be big, fast and flexible.

T. D. Jakes

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Charles Dickens

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

Charles Dickens

The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power.

Charles Caleb Colton

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Charles Dickens

I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes.

Charles Spurgeon

Give because you love to give - as the flower pours forth its perfume.

Charles Spurgeon

No Scripture is exhausted by a single explanation. The flowers of God's garden bloom not only double, but sevenfold; they are continually pouring forth fresh fragrance.

Charles Spurgeon

True humility is a flower which will adorn any garden.

Alan Watts

You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe.

Alan Watts

If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field.

Chogyam Trungpa

You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to the sun shining and plants growing. The sun has no desire to create the vegetation; plants simply react to sunlight and the situation develops naturally.

Alan Bailey

There will be no planting for safety's sake, but we will accommodate (supervisors) regarding the stenciled concrete.

William Cullen Bryant

We plant, upon the sunny lea, A shadow for the noontide hour, A shelter from the summer shower, When we plant the apple-tree.

Matt Diersen

Sometimes you have to roll with the price increases. There's not too much you can do in terms of foregoing planting or harvesting a crop.

Dennis Hastert

I've never run a plantation before. I'm not even sure what kind of association she's trying to make. If she's trying to be racist, I think that's unfortunate.

Dan Hill

This is a place to start. It's the first planting of something to grow.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Plants live; how much they feel and enjoy, who shall say?

Jamie Oliver

The future is about a plant-based diet.

Atharva Veda

Do and dedicate, work and worship, plant and protect; but do not worry about the fruit; that is the secret of spiritual success.