Ethnobotany Research Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps life is what happens when you least expect it. — Jane Harvey-Berrick

I couldn't figure out if it was fate or faith that had brought me there. How funny those two words sounded when paired together. One was the inevitable, something I could not change in my life, while the other was the hope and belief that I could. These two words were enemies of each other, and one of them was down right dangerous for a slave to have anywhere near his mind. — Jay Grewal

The consequences of giving up on your dreams are bitter than the causes of your intentions to give up. Don't give up! — Israelmore Ayivor

I feel hollow, knowing that Puck's here somewhere and I haven't found her. I need to find her, and the needing disquiets me. — Maggie Stiefvater

You are doomed to a life that will repeat itself again and again, as do all lives - for lives are static things, readings of already written papers - but whereas some men are fortunate to repeat a good pattern, others have the opposite luck - and you can surely see by now that your life is doomed to this same humiliation, endlessly repeated. — Andrew Holleran

I have never been disappointed upon asking microorganisms for whatever I wanted. — Kinichiro Sakaguchi

As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned when he tried to pack the Supreme Court, the three branches of government are coequal for a reason. Neither the executive branch or the legislative branch should use the third branch to a pursue a partisan agenda. — Dan Pfeiffer

I begin and end with her. It's as simple and as profound as that. Our worlds have entwined and wrapped around each other's completely. They've shaped into something new and fixed and whole. There is no longer her story or mine, but now and always, only ours. — Laurelin Paige

I just couldn't stop thinking about what landmines are doing to people here. I told people - my friends - about it, but it was just not enough. I knew I had to do more. — Jackie Chan

I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He said, 'You'll come to a wall you won't be able to get through.' So I said, 'I'll beat my head against that wall.' — John Cage

If you work in a home office, you can likely write off that space, as long as you use it only for work. — Jean Chatzky

What was better?" he asked. "The kiss or the fall?" He pulled to a stop in front of the house, and I smiled, my face averted. "Aren't they the same thing? — R.K. Ryals

When I was in high school in the '50s you were supposed to be an Elvis Presley, a James Dean, a Marlon Brando or a Kingston Trio type in a button-down shirt headed for the fraternities at Stanford or Cal. — Robert Hass

To realize the truth, you have to cross the boundaries of all religions and prophets. — Amit Ray

Feminism isn't about hating men. It's about challenging the absurd gender distinctions that boys and girls learn from childhood and carry into their adult lives. — Robert Webb