Ekstrom Nursery Quotes & Sayings

It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I am guilty of one; nor more desirous of atoning for a crime, when I am sensible of having committed it. — George Washington

Nothing exists without a purpose. And we humans are subject to the laws of nature just as everything else on earth is. — Caroline Myss

Since the building of Constantinople, and the removal of the seat of government to that city, no political quarrel separated Rome from Egypt. Pagan Rome, ever since the union of the two countries under Augustus, except when interrupted by the rebellions, had been eagerly copying the superstitions of Egypt, and Christian Rome still followed the same course. — Samuel Sharpe

A person's got to fight for every single thing they get,' she said slowly. 'And I've noticed a lot of times that the farther down a kid comes in the family the better the kid really is. — Carson McCullers

The minute we leave south Lebanon we will have to erase the word Hezbollah from our vocabulary, because the whole idea of the State of Israel versus Hezbollah was sheer folly from the outset. It most certainly no longer will be relevant when Israel returns to her internationally recognized northern border. — Amos Oz

I don't see big subjects as separate from little ones. Yes, you could trudge through life with great human tragedies played out before your eyes without ever taking notice. Or you could see a universe in the smallest thing. The way a person takes their coffee, for example, might say something profound and important about that person, about all humanity, about existence itself. — Johnny Rich

Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but there's no food, no culture, no ocean. — Elin Hilderbrand

I have always had an interest in fashion and design and I appreciate style and timelessness within my footwear and accessories both on and off the court. — Maria Sharapova

The slave is always a tyrant, if he can get a chance to be one. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

I've always been able to cook Italian food. That's in my blood because I'm half Sicilian. — Jen Lancaster

Tithing is like training wheels when it comes to giving. It's intended to help you get started, but not recommended for the Tour de France. — John Ortberg

Few today believe that engaging in wrestling, boxing, or even much more violent combat sports such as Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) will help prepare either them as individuals or their nations for eventual armed conflict. — Martin Van Creveld

It is the White Man who creates the black man. But it is the black man who creates. — Claudia Rankine