Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.

Sherman Alexie

A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.

Henry Ward Beecher

There was never such a gigantic lie told as the fable of the Garden of Eden

Dean Koontz

This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so.

Tom Robbins

In East of Eden, John Steinbeck wrote that there's never been a great creative collaboration. When the Beatles first burst on the scene, I thought they were proving him wrong. Later, we learned that Lennon and McCartney had each composed their pop masterpieces separately, individually. So it goes.

John Steinbeck

No one who is young is ever going to be old.

John Steinbeck

Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-- never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?

John Steinbeck

We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.

Marie Lu

When had Eden grown up? I feel like I blinked and missed it.

Benjamin Franklin

Fiction or fable allures to instruction.

Brandon Boyd

Above our heads exists an infinity of unfathomable fantasiastics: and fields of future fireside fables trail close behind

David Attenborough

Natural history is not about producing fables.

Petronius

One good turn deserves another.

George Washington

Providence has done, and I am persuaded is disposed to do, a great deal for us; but we are not to forget the fable of Jupiter and the countryman.

Beeban Kidron

Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

Joseph Joubert

National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.

Yann Martel

The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.

Joseph Addison

Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.

Alan Chadwick

The Gardener does not create the Garden. The Garden creates the Gardener.

Alan Chadwick

It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.

Al Jarreau

I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.

Chogyam Trungpa

In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by the coconuts of wakefulness.

Edith Sitwell

The light would show (if it could harden) Eternities of kitchen garden

Ed Begley, Jr.

To be a modern person in 2012, you are often required to have some electronics in your life. And I do. I try to put that phone down, put the computer away, and get out there and hike in the woods; feel it in my feet, feel it in my hands; get out in the garden and feel the soil under my fingers, my fingertips and my fingernails. I try to be involved in nature in a very tactile way. I think that's important.

David Hobson

I've always felt that you can't do much wrong in a garden providing you enjoy it.

David Hobson

If there's one thing I can say about my garden, it can always surprise me.

Beatrix Potter

Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.

Sharon Stone

We've got 400,000 girls with beach-y blonde hair, the same nose, gigantic lips, implants in their cheeks, and little Chicklets for teeth. Are they really prettier?

William Bryan

Gigantic troubadour, speaking like a siege gun / Smashing Plymouth Rock with his boulders from the West.

Siri Hustvedt

My parents were gigantic influences on me. I had a deep hunger to impress my father, who was a professor and an intellectual. I wanted his approval.

Matthias Platzeck

I will do everything to pay back this gigantic offering of confidence.

David Friedman

For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing high D's, hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times!

William Ernest Henley

Balzac's ambition was to be omnipotent. He would be Michelangelesque, and that by sheer force of minuteness. He exaggerated scientifically, and made things gigantic by a microscopic fulness of detail.

Tom Riley

What you don't get necessarily at drama school is a gigantic mix of people. At university, there's people from every social background, and you get to go through that period of being naive and not quite sure who you're going to be.

Bill Clarke

You didn't realize how gigantic these things were. Wow!

Richard Brooks

Don is really the reason we're here. He's got a gigantic heart. He said he was going to get us in a place and he did.

William Gale

They're telling kind of a big lie about tax reform.

Guy Ritchie

a very serious relationship. ... I will say marriage may lie in the future.

Simon Smith

The story she sold was something she had fabricated. She lied to the News of the World.

Sean Penn

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

John Cummings

Right now, we can comfortably shelter about 257,000 residents on island. Now when we talk about shelter space, we plan for a 3-by-5 space, just enough for you to lie down and get in.

Andy Cole

It would be a lie if I said I didn't have any reservations about returning to Manchester,

Jeffrey Lichtman

These witnesses lied to you and they lied to you repeatedly,

Brian Blair

I've been outright lied to by public works. If they lied to me once, they'll lie to me again.

Pete Best

The way I look at it, ... just let it lie now.