Garden Party By Katherine Mansfield Quotes & Sayings

I don't see much of a future for this planet. I think it's a cursed planet. The boundaries we've drawn between nations and the profit motive - those two factors have, in my opinion, brought us to the point where almost nothing can stop the utter destruction of the environment and all our earthly life-support systems. — George Carlin

The environment is the most important, the most fundamental, civil-rights issue ... Four out of every five toxic-waste dumps in America is in a black neighborhood. — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses. — Leonardo Da Vinci

I wasn't a keen taker of speed because I didn't like the comedown from it. — Jonathan Meades

[A]s a parent you just have no idea what anything means. On some level everything your kids do and say is in code. — Bill Clegg

People are jackals, always willing to feed off someone else's kill. — Tamora Pierce

Our probable ancestors, Homo erectus and Homo habilis -now extinct- are classified as of the same genus (Homo) but of different species, although no one (at least lately) has attempted the appropriate experiments to see if crosses of them with us would produce fertile offspring. — Carl Sagan

I'm a vegetarian. I believe that we're all equal. I ain't got no right to kill. Say a fly comes in my house, I tolerate that little a**hole. — Russell Brand

Roses are the only flowers at garden-parties; the only flowers that everybody is certain of knowing. — Katherine Mansfield

'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to the executives and stockholders of various businesses who will continue to profit from, for example, 'The Garden Party,' while the descendants of Katherine Mansfield will not. — Mark Helprin