Mockridge Nurseries Quotes & Sayings

I'm like, 'Yeah, I could afford braces, but why should I change myself to be what everybody else wants me to be when I'm OK with who I am and I'm happy with who I am?' — Becky G

Ruby said there were many songs that you could not say anybody in particular had made by himself. A song went around from fiddler to fiddler and each one added something and took something away so that in time the song became a different thing from what it had been, barely recognizable in either tune or lyric. But you could not say the song had been improved, for as was true of all human effort, there was never advancement. Everything added meant something lost, and about as often as not the thing lost was preferable to the thing gained, so that over time we'd be lucky if we just broke even. Any thought otherwise was empty pride. — Charles Frazier

Wisdom requires a flexible mind. — Dan Carlin

In college, the fans cheer the whole game, from start to finish. In the NBA it's really laid back. — Nate Robinson

All that is not given is lost. — Rabindranath Tagore

Perhaps I scare people. I don't know why. — Max Von Sydow

A collection of Bach organ fugues (nerds have a thing about Bach), — Neal Stephenson

Mandarin ducks mate for life and will die of loneliness if separated from their chosen mate. — Katherine Paterson

We had forgotten to say that Jacopo was a Corsican. — Alexandre Dumas

Whatever shit happened to drag us here to this moment ... I wish most of it hadn't needed to go down the way it did, but I'm still glad it ended up here, right here ... The pain was worth it if it's what brought you to me. — Linda Kage

No one wants to be entrapped by his or her addictive habit... — Asa Don Brown

I don't keep up with it all. But Taylor Swift writes songs about everybody she goes out with, right? What a way to build a career. — Michael J. Fox

Small things done consistently, though undramatic, yield more than the large and sporadic. — Stephen Mansfield

The more successful enterprises are the more they try to replicate, duplicate, codify what makes us great. And suddenly they're inward thinking. They're thinking how can we continue to do what we've done in the past without understanding that what made them successful is to take risks, to change and to adapt and to be responsive. And so in a sense success breeds its own failure. And I think it's true of a lot of successful businesses. — Lou Gerstner