Cattleyas Flowers Quotes & Sayings

As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life. — Jules Verne

Of course, to be a mother and a housewife is a vocation of a very high kind. But I simply felt that it was not the whole of my vocation. I knew that I also wanted a career. A phrase that Irene Ward, MP for Tynemouth, and I often used was that 'while the home must always be the centre of one's life, it should not be the boundary of one's ambitions'. — Margaret Thatcher

Without conjuring up fantasies of bygone eras with family games and long, leisurely meals, the question arises: isn't there a better family life available than this dismal, mechanized arrangement of children watching television for however long is allowed them, evening after evening? — Marie Winn

The cattleyas especially (these being, with chrysanthemums, her favourite flowers), because they had the supreme merit of not looking in the least like other flowers, but of being made, apparently, out of scraps of silk or satin. — Marcel Proust

The sun had long set, but one blood-red gash like an open wound lay low in the distant west. — Arthur Conan Doyle

The winds are nothing else but good or bad spirits. Hark! how the Devil is puffing and blowing ... — Martin Luther

It's so easy for me to fall back into depression. I think it comes with having money. I don't have to work. I could be sitting bored and depressed at home with a bag on my head. — Kelly Osbourne

[The United States is] founded on the principles of Christianity — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Look again and you will see the Gods rise in the most human and unassuming of eyes. — Kate Tempest