Bordens Eggnog Quotes & Sayings

How plants grow: Quickly. Most plants grow fast and die young. People get seventy years, a bean plant gets four months, maybe five. Once the itty-bitty baby plant peeks out of the ground, it sprouts leaves, so it can absorb more sun. Then it sleeps, eats, and sunbathes until it's ready to flower - a teenage plant. This is a bad time to be a rose or a zinnia or a marigold, because people attack with scissors and cut off what's pretty. But plants are cool. If the rose is picked, the plant grows another one. It needs to bloom to produce more seeds. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed. — Confucius

We're all a little bit of everyone. — Rachel Harris

My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything. — Ernest Hemingway,

There's no need to be perfect to inspire others. Let people get inspired by how you deal with your imperfections. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Farming
a vocation accursed of heaven, since one never saw a millionaire involved in it. — Gustave Flaubert

I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently. — Jackie Collins

The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him who considers himself wise in the possession of knowledge. This meaning of the word still endures: the essence of philosophy is not the possession of the truth but the search for truth ... Philosophy means to be on the way. Its questions are more essential than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question. — Karl Jaspers

The ox was bad enough, Mina thought as she checked out the damage to her vegetables, yet now I have goats to torment me. However, if the goru was like the king, then the goats must be like the political parties, so maybe in the end her life won't be so different after all? Yet she had to make sure that it would be different this time somehow, at least for Sidip's sake, if for no other reason. — Andrew James Pritchard

Mac OS X Tiger will come out long before Longhorn. — Steve Jobs

I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please. — Jane Fonda

Many will seek to tell me what God's will is. But nobody knows. Not really. Because God is quiet. Always. He is quiet, and my anguish is so intense, so incredibly loud, that right now I can only do my will and hope that somehow, it aligns with his. — Amy Harmon

Systems are complex, so controlling an attack and achieving a desired level of damage may be harder than using physical weapons. — Dorothy Denning

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science. — Michelangelo Antonioni

Too many people dwell on the past: the thing is to get on with life. — Zarin Mehta