Flower Planter Quotes & Sayings

This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius. — Henryk Sienkiewicz

Flower god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful,
Cold-dyed shield in the sky, lover of versicles,
Here I wander in April
Cold, grey-headed; and still to my
Heart, Spring comes with a bound, Spring the deliverer,
Spring, song-leader in woods, chorally resonant;
Spring, flower-planter in meadows,
Child-conductor in willowy
Fields deep dotted with bloom, daisies and crocuses:
Here that child from his heart drinks of eternity:
O child, happy are children! — Robert Louis Stevenson

Who can wonder at the attractiveness ... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator? — Marsilio Ficino

The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort. — Terry Pratchett

Every breath we take as human beings damages the planet. — Kevin McCloud

In a lot of ways, he knew her better than she knew herself, mostly because when she looked inside herself, she hated what she saw. — S.G. Redling

I've been on television since I was about 17. I had opportunities - one major opportunity I blew in my 20s. Once I started down this pathway, it was a case of not letting anyone stop me. Not my wife, not my family. It was getting too late to give it a small percentage. I had to give it one hundred percent. — Paul Eenhoorn

Faith is powerful enough to immunize people against all appeals to pity, to forgiveness, to decent human feelings. It even immunizes them against fear, if they honestly believe that a martyr's death will send them straight to heaven. — Richard Dawkins

None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live. — Mahatma Gandhi

Surprise is the practice of accepting the unexpected interruption, and the practice of leaving enough space in the day for something to happen that isn't on the list. Surrendering to surprise is the practice of balancing structure and openness. — Christina Baldwin

Chinese people themselves, they really want change. — Dalai Lama

All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with his entire past, without finding his present motives (like honor) senseless, and without opposing scorn and disdain to the passions that urge one on to the future and to the happiness in it. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe. — James Gleick

I DON'T smoke anymore, except on National No Smoking Day as a protest against those who want to control our lives. — Richard Littlejohn