Mccorkles Plant Quotes & Sayings

The field was empty now. The grasses had been laid flat by more than one game played there, but in the center of it all, a single wildflower caught my attention. I was bright purple and stood erect where a hundred others around it had been smashed. I wondered if it had somehow escaped harm, or if it had been stepped on before but refused to lie down. — Jennifer A. Nielsen

With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper. — Thorstein Veblen

Dogs have their day but cats have 365. — Lilian Jackson Braun

Life can be tough and harsh at times. That's what makes it great. Every day is a celebration of survival. — Jonathan Heatt

I'm Catholic, and my wife is Catholic. We're very religious. We go to church. We pray every night. We pray at dinner. To me, Catholics regard themselves as very Christian. Some Christians view Catholics as not necessarily Christian. — Nicholas Sparks

Possession of anything new or expensive only reflected a person's lack of theology and geometry; it could even cast doubts upon one's soul. — John Kennedy Toole

I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots. — Wendy Cope

You say true, I say thankya. — Stephen King

The stock market goes nuts over any company that so much as mentions the word Internet. All this proves to me is that the boneheads on Wall Street are as dumb as they were in college when they had to switch their majors to business to keep from flunking out. — John C. Dvorak

what despair to see a woman one loves longing for those thousand nothings from which women compose their happiness, and to be unable to give her those thousand nothings. — Alexandre Dumas

The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep. — Murasaki Shikibu

The only compensation for the artist is the chance to feed hungry hearts. — Anzia Yezierska