Plantings Around Trees Quotes & Sayings

The blues will be blue, and the jealousies green, but when love picks its color it demands to be seen. — Garth Brooks

Because we want to be inwardly secure, we are constantly seeking methods and means for this security, and thereby we create authority, the worship of another, which destroys comprehension, that spontaneous tranquility of mind in which alone there can be a state of creativeness. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

In some instances, alimony has become akin to a social-welfare program provided by working women to their ex-husbands. — Diane Garnick

even now, the building raised a conflicting set of emotions in her: memories of pain and loss, but also of healing and discovery. — Stephen Lloyd Jones

I wish the Fallen would just come to us for a change."
Ironically, Fallen Angels dropped from the sky and surrounded us.
"I wish I had a chocolate cake!" I exclaimed, staring up.
No cake appeared, though I did get a few wry glances. Andrew's body shook with silent laughter while Lucia gave
me raised eyebrows.
"What? It worked for the Fallen Angels. — Laura Kreitzer

I was never an activist, in the sense that I didn't really join a lot of organizations. I wasn't out in the streets. But what I did become was a writer. My activism was in writing. — Vivian Gornick

I am by nature a worried optimist ... — Madeleine Albright

One of the greatest things you have in life is that no one has the authority to tell you what you want to be. You're the one who'll decide what you want to be. Respect yourself and respect the integrity of others as well. The greatest thing you have is your self image, a positive opinion of yourself. You must never let anyone take it from you. — Jaime Escalante

How few women have any history after the age of thirty! — Elizabeth Oakes Smith

But there's a big difference between "impossible" and "hard to imagine." The first is about it; the second is about you! — Marvin Minsky