Famous Botany Quotes & Sayings

Well, this was disappointing. I supposed I had jumped to a rather large conclusion, with the help of my research. It just went to show that Wikipedia was a liar and Google a whore. — Maggie Stiefvater

Why is it that there was always a unit on history, math, science and god knows what other useless, totally forgettable information you taught those seventh graders year after year, but never any unit on death? No exercises, no workbooks, no final exams on the only subject that matters? — Nicole Krauss

What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them? — Jane Addams

Sometimes, I feel the reason I have become a star beyond my films is that I am politically incorrect. — Shah Rukh Khan

But a topee is not a turban, and I had been my teacher's pupil before I became my husband's wife, learning to my bones that half a disguise is none at all ... The moment my short-cropped, pomade-sleek, unquestionably masculine hair passed beneath his nose was the closest thing I've ever seen Holmes to fainting dead away. — Laurie R. King

I think a blog is a catalyst for a number of possible kinds of writing besides being its own medium. — Stephen Vincent Benet

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division. — Henri Bergson

For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to link essays to webcasts or videos. The best way for these two media to move forward, to inform and make change, is in tandem; together they are more than the sum of their parts. — Naomi Wolf

Fills the heart with its unforgettable characters and small-town charm. A feel-good read as welcome as a favorite friend! — Christie Ridgway

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. — Elizabeth Bowen