Famous Quotes & Sayings

We want to show the grower how to cultivate a better quality and longer-lasting flower, because this is what the customers want.

John C. McGinley

What helps writers, and ultimately, obviously, helps the actors - who should serve the words that the writer puts on the page - is if the character has damages, because then the writers can cultivate and excavate, like a dentist going into a tooth.

Liz Smith

wonderful way to cultivate friendships and give those in Medford a view of the outside world.

We find great ideas and cultivate them off whatever platform we can think of.

With the increase in the campaign, all the extra funds went to expand allocations and grants. That helped to cultivate newer groups and smaller groups, to help them mature.

We're getting ready for the future. We've cultivated and planted a garden and it's starting to grow. We need to keep doing that the rest of the season.

Don Martin

The one thing I always preach to people: Don't plant too deeply. You don't cultivate them like roses. Let them stay on top, and mulch around the top.

Anita Loos

So then Dr Froyd said all I needed was to cultivate a few inhibitions and get some sleep.

Linda Ronstadt

Songwriting wasn't my gift. I think you have to cultivate a gift; you have to practice and develop craft around your gift so that you can execute it in more convenient, efficient ways.

Teaching is the single most important thing we do here at the University. To cultivate knowledge and watch it grow is immensely rewarding.

The very flag of freedom that waves over our heads is formed from material cultivated by slaves, on soil moistened with their blood drawn from them by the whip of a republican taskmaster!

Nicholas Negroponte

This is not teaching as we know it; only part of our learning comes from teaching. Much of it comes from curiosity. These are tools that can help cultivate that learning process.

Kid Rock

The spirit of rock 'n' roll is alive and well. It kind of just needs to be cultivated a little bit.

Taylor Handley

As far as an actor-director connection, I think those can develop, and when they do, they're really great, and you just cultivate it like you would any relationship or friendship. If you find that something special, it helps down the line when you want to do more projects with each other.

The outgoing Senate has lost credibility and public trust over the past few years. The incoming senators will be hard pressed to cultivate a semblance of legitimacy given the ongoing crisis.

Kathe Kollwitz

I want to cultivate the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.

Sathya Baba

Cultivate a sweet temper and the sweet speech which is its natural consequence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Consciously or unconsciously, everyone of us does render some service or another. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and it will make not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

Sathya Baba

Together with worldly education, you have to cultivate the human values and undertake spiritual discipline.

Sathya Baba

Man has to follow righteousness. He has to cultivate love. he has to live in peace. He has to observe nonviolence.

Politicians back to Washington have evoked that story, but it's not really true. Eisenhower, for example, cultivated an image as a non-politician, even though you don't get to be a five-star general without being a politician.

From the late David Broder on down, the most powerful and influential of the great Washington columnists and journalists tend to cultivate the driest, least lively voices possible.

For the second kind of readers, Vogue offers fashion concepts, and helps to cultivate their taste and vision of fashion.

Maurice Saatchi cultivated the press instead of the clients.

Henry David Thoreau

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

Henry David Thoreau

It is not so desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right

Kathe Kollwitz

I do not want to die...until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.

People are kind of following the truck around, so to speak. People watch the schedule, and we cultivate that.

Big Sean

I feel like 'Beware' is a heartfelt song - it's something that is definitely a story, something that I cultivated from personal stories, some from just other stories in just wanting to make a good song.

Ernestine Rose

Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his.

Ben Carson

Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.

Tasha Smith

I enjoy encouraging and inspiring people to pursue their purpose in the arts. To help cultivate and develop their instrument.

Tim Gunn

Fashion was in a crisis up until the mid-'90s and, when it came out of the crisis, it was a very different place. It was a place that nurtured and cultivated young entrepreneurial designers.