Georgeson Botanical Garden Quotes & Sayings

You can eat a Burger for $5 or a Kobe Steak for $100. They both fill you up. The real difference is the experience. — David Dobson

Surely, by all convention, the Iliad will end here, with the triumphant return of its vindicated hero. But the Iliad is not a conventional epic, and at the very moment of its hero's greatest military triumph, Homer diverts his focus from Achilles to the epic's two most important casualties, Patroklos and Hektor: it is to the consequences of their deaths, especially to the victor, that all action of the Iliad has been inexorably leading. — Caroline Alexander

Your past wouldn't frighten me," I said, buckling my seat belt across my lap. "I'm guessing I'd be more appalled than anything. — Becca Fitzpatrick

No matter what you do, your person comes through. You can't completely change yourself on the screen. I had in mind someone colder and more in control, but I couldn't do it. This human note just crept in and maybe it's better. — Leslie Caron

Rugby may have many problems, but the gravest is undoubtedly that of the persistence of summer. — Chris Laidlaw

You are reading while walking, she reads. You can't see your feet. The spread pages glide over the sidewalk, mottled by leaf shadows, by moonlight and streetlight. Over continents of shadow, continents of light. The book is a bird with white wings. You are a bird. Reading, you can fly.
You are flying now. — Joyelle McSweeney

O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark,
The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant — T. S. Eliot

No, for God's sake, I'm not bloody suicidal. And I'm not proposing, either. Forget I said anything. — Michael Grant

It not only is a complete undermining of the principles of family and marriage and the hope of future generations, but it completely begins to see our society break down to the extent that that foundational unit of the family that is the hope of survival of this country is diminished to the extent that it literally is a threat to the nation's survival in the long run. — Trent Franks

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open. — Alexander Graham Bell

Life's much more pleasing when you don't have to spend all of your time thinking. — David Eddings

Train your subconscious to be positive by using the heart intelligence. — Steven Redhead

The problem I've always discovered in my own work when this kind of thing happens when you hit the wall is there's almost always a reason. You've almost always made a mistake in the initial conception of the project. You misapprehended something or you thought something would work and now you're three quarters on the way through and you see that it doesn't work. — Steven Pressfield

Jesus Christ went to the cross to magnify his ego. — Robert H. Schuller

The brave man is not the one who has no fears, he is the one who triumphs over his fears. — Nelson Mandela