Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carson McCullers

Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.

Daniel Handler

It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.

Winston Churchill

When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

Marcus Valerius Martial

You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

Benjamin Franklin

Fear not Death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.

Nancy Lessin

There should be no one that died because this war shouldn't have happened and more killing and more death is not helping anything. The occupation of Iraq right now by the U.S. is the problem, it's not the solution.

Jim Osborn

There's no way that can be overlooked. If his death leads to passage of hate-crime legislation in Wyoming, it will be a bittersweet footnote in our state's history.

John Strachan

The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.

Diane Ackerman

[On gardens:] I think they're sanctuaries for the mind and spirit. ... It's easy to feel wonder-struck in a garden, especially if you cultivate delight.

Tom Turner

Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.

Russell Page

My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups of plants.

Rumi

If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden; and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.

Michael Pollan

Nature abhors a garden.

Michael Fish

I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.

George Bernard Shaw

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

Freeman Dyson

That was the wonderful thing about Ramanujan. He discovered so much, and yet he left so much more in his garden for other people to discover.

Freeman Dyson

The seeds from Ramanujan's garden have been blowing on the wind and have been sprouting all over the landscape. [On the stimulating effects of Ramanujan's mathematical legacy.]

Tom Hanks

Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't.

Ashton Kutcher

Entertainment, really, is a dying industry.

Stuart Levy

We have patients in the United States dying from infections that are untreatable. This is unthinkable.

Richard Sheridan

I wish sir, you would practice this without me. I can't stay dying here all night

Jean Bruyere

We must laugh before we are happy for fear of dying without having laughed at all

James Hetfield

Dying, dying, someone told me just recently, dying is easy. Living is hard. for everyone.

Jared Harris

I've done quite a lot of dying on shows and in movies. To have a good death scene though - come on, it's brilliant. I love a good death scene!

Janet Flanner

Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying.

Ethel Barrymore

Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.