Poppy North Quotes & Sayings

Believing themselves superior in soul, in strength, in energy, industry, and national virtue, Germans felt they deserved the dominion of Europe. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are. — Ramana Maharshi

Towns like Launceston, Longford, Evandale and other current-day hubs of poppy production in north and central Tasmania had been settled by tens of thousands of British and Irish convicts transported here in the early 19th century as a cheap alternative to prisons in the British Isles. They were followed by thousands of so-called free settlers, who built communities with main streets still lined by two- and three-story pink sandstone buildings. — Anonymous

Fearing the unknown within myself has kept me crouching in a corner. I look to see who I am and discover much that is worthy. — Maureen Brady

All the talking in the world couldn't even prove you and the other person both saw the same color red. — L.J.Smith

I believe, my lady, that life is the phantom, and love still more fleeting and elusive - here one minute like a sweet scent you can't quite recognize and gone the next. Best enjoy both while you can. — Dawn Hammill

The day of the week changes, but one day in the week I eat vegetarian. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Everybody knew that he spent an hour each morning hopping about and kicking things like a maddened rabbit — Meredith Duran

Language overlaps with culture but is not subsumed by it — John McWhorter

The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination and make their surroundings more exciting. — Verner Panton

What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life I must be quite certain that it is necessary. I must never go beyond the unavoidable, not even in apparently insignificant things. The farmer who has mowed down a thousand flowers in his meadow in order to feed his cows must be careful on his way home not to strike the head off a single flower by the side of the road in idle amusement, for he thereby infringes on the law of life without being under the pressure of necessity. — Albert Schweitzer