Cruso Quotes & Sayings

If life was a game, like everyone said, then I wanted to win. I held up my hands to the heavens. Deal me in. — Wendy Higgins

We would sit in the living room, drink a case of Busch beer, and throw the empty cans into the kitchen for no reason whatsoever, beyond the fact that it was the most overtly irresponsible way for any two people to live. — Chuck Klosterman

At the end of my patient reconstruction, I had before me a kind of lesser library, a symbol of the greater, vanished one: a library made up of fragments, quotations, unfinished sentences, amputated stumps of books. — Umberto Eco

March is a month of considerable frustration - it is so near spring and yet across a great deal of the country the weather is still so violent and changeable that outdoor activity in our yards seems light years away. — Thalassa Cruso

The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love. — Gregory David Roberts

The most disgusting in the world is being unaware of who we are — Sunday Adelaja

Okay, well, we have to come up with an excuse. You needing to work and me needing a makeup change isn't going to cut it. We're seriously late.
Baby, we don't need an excuse. Anyone who sees you in that dress and those shoes will know exactly why we're late. — Kristen Ashley

But, soft! methinks I do digress too much, — William Shakespeare

Scents bring memories, and many memories bring nostalgic pleasure. We would be wise to plan for this when we plant a garden. — Thalassa Cruso

Once we become interested in the progress of the plants in our care, their development becomes a part of the rhythm of our own lives and we are refreshed by it. — Thalassa Cruso

I choose rather to tell of the island, of myself and Cruso and Friday and what we three did there: for I am a free woman who asserts her freedom by telling her story according to her own desire. — J.M. Coetzee

I'm no good at cooking or music, but I've always known how to garden. Nobody ever taught me; I just absorbed it. Some families are churchgoers or sports fans. We gardened. — Thalassa Cruso

You've got to enjoy yourself. The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it. That's how I look at it. Ask anybody, they'll all tell you. The evening's the best part of the day. — Kazuo Ishiguro

One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards. — Thalassa Cruso

The work that we are doing for God should be of a higher priority than what we do for man — Sunday Adelaja

I do not say that, when brought to the test, I shall be invincible. — James Otis

When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there. Certainly, millions who joined it the world over, like myself, didn't join it for profit. — Albert Maltz

You will believe me when I say the life we lead grows less and less distinct from the life we led of Cruso's island. Sometimes I wake up not knowing where I am. The world is full of islands, said Cruso once. His words ring truer every day. — J.M. Coetzee

The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind. — Thalassa Cruso

I think I was pigeonholed pretty early on. And I started late in my career. I was 33. — Rene Russo

A truly humble person knows that they are nothing in themselves but they are everything in Christ. — Joyce Meyer

When I reflect on my story I seem to exist only as the one who came, the one who witnessed, the one who longed to be gone: a being without substance, a ghost beside the true body of Cruso. Is that the fate of all storytellers? — J.M. Coetzee

Fall is not the end of the gardening year; it is the start of next year's growing season. The mulch you lay down will protect your perennial plants during the winter and feed the soil as it decays, while the cleaned up flower bed will give you a huge head start on either planting seeds or setting out small plants. — Thalassa Cruso

The greatest testimony to this dark world today would be a band of crucified and risen men and women, dead to sin and alive unto God, bearing in their bodies "the marks of the Lord Jesus" [Galatians 6:17 NKJV]. — Billy Graham

Every year it seems to me I hear complaints about spring. It is either "late" or "unusually cold," "abnormally dry" or "fantastically wet," for no one is ever willing to admit that there is no such thing as a normal spring. — Thalassa Cruso

Today I am sure no one needs to be told that the more birds a yard can support, the fewer insects there will be to trouble the gardener the following year. — Thalassa Cruso

Genuine rights don't conflict - they enable us to live together without intractable conflicts. — Yaron Brook

I have always found thick woods a little intimidating, for they are so secret and enclosed. You may seem alone but you are not, for there are always eyes watching you. All the wildlife of the woods, the insects, birds, and animals, are well aware of your presence no matter how softly you may tread, and they follow your every move although you cannot see them. — Thalassa Cruso