Eberts Greenhouse Quotes & Sayings

Michael saw Northampton Castle being built by Normans and their labourers, while being pulled down in accordance with the will of Charles the Second fifteen hundred years thereafter. A few centuries of grass and ruins coexisted with the bubbling growth and fluctuations of the railway station. 1920s porters, speeded up into a silent comedy, pushed luggage-laden trolleys through a Saxon hunting party. Women in ridiculously tiny skirts superimposed themselves unwittingly on Roundhead puritans, briefly becoming composites with fishnet tights and pikestaffs. Horses' heads grew from the roofs of cars and all the while the castle was constructed and demolished, rising, falling, rising, falling, like a great grey lung of history that breathed crusades, saints, revolutions and electric trains. — Alan Moore

During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If we project what the world will be like 10 years from now without continuing innovation in health, energy or food, the picture is dark. — Bill Gates

Now, even as her family grieved, she was giving birth again. — Mark Oristano

Dance was one of the things that led me to acting even though I say I fell in love with acting fairly early on and its true but around 16 and 17 I got heavily into dance but I think I just came into it too late and I was never going to be really great at it so I let it go and the dance led to more acting classes. — Naomi Watts

Of course, growing up, I was a big fan of rap so that was something that I got into. I was a fan of a lot of artists. You can be a fan, but at the same time, you gotta carve your own swagger and carve out your own style. — Kirko Bangz

This sense of insecurity was falling about the entire planet and though people went on doing the things they usually did, they had none of the assurance, the happy-go-lucky "all-right" feeling, that had hitherto sustained normal men. They went on doing their customary things because they could not think of anything else to do. They tried to believe, and many did succeed in believing, that there would presently be a turn for the better. They did nothing to bring about that turn for the better; they just hoped it would occur. — H.G.Wells

If only life were as simple as a boot toss. — Rachel Barnard

One key lesson of history is that virtually anything, including afternoon or evening thundershowers, causes Germany to invade Belgium. — Dave Barry

It is another Justine Henin who will try and go out there and achieve her dream of finally winning Wimbledon, — Justine Henin

Aphorisms have never seduced anybody, but they have fooled some into considering themselves worldly-wise. — Mason Cooley

The law is not designed to make us honorable, only bearable. — Marie C. Malaro

The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac. — Denis Diderot

I'm like a ship captain: I have a woman in every port. — Henrique Capriles Radonski

I don't go to church on Sunday, don't get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way — Tom Waits