Hadwen Arboretum Quotes & Sayings

I'd already put on a bit of weight before I got pregnant. — Jennifer Ellison

How do we define consciousness, or what has been called the human soul or the spirit, if it can't be quantified as matter or a particle? ... it can be quantified or observed just by a process of elimination. — Vanna Bonta

Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad. — Paul Valery

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired. — Henry Ford

It had been nine months since Riko Moriyama and Kevin Day stood in the same room together, nine months since Riko destroyed Kevin's hand, and now they were reunited on live television. The audience cheered their hearts out, delighted by Kathy's surprise, but they weren't quite loud enough to drown out Kevin's soft voice at Neil's side.
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The words sounded like a desperate prayer. — Nora Sakavic

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched. — Jonah Hill

So, there's only so much you can do with a rock video. — Melissa Auf Der Maur

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this idea of opening a restaurant back in Indiana on a little pond. The guests would order their dinner and then take a little boat out with a colored flag on the front of it. When the matching color of the flag on their boat went up on a flag pole, their dinner was ready! — Greg Kinnear

Nobody sees it happening, but the architecture of our time
Is becoming the architecture of the next time. — Mark Strand

Great Goddess, Great God, I come before you at the end of another day and thank you for the many blessings in my life. For friends and family and pets, for home and health and good food. I thank you for (the names of whichever people crossed my path that day in meaningful ways) and for (whatever good things happened or whichever not-so-great things they helped me survive.). Please help me to get a good night's sleep so I might wake in the morning refreshed and energized and ready to face another day. Watch over me and those I love. So mote it be. — Deborah Blake

[Aristotle] was the most eminent of all the pupils of Plato ... He seceded from Plato while he was still alive; so that they tell a story that [Plato] said, Aristotle has kicked us off, just as chickens do their mother after they have been hatched. — Plato

Was he really looking forward to it? They were usually a bit of anticlimax, these things. Stillit would do him good. Or serve him right — Colin Dexter

Israel's strategy cannot be to constantly confront the Palestinians with the history of the Holocaust, but instead to show them that Israel is a reality. — Daniel Barenboim