Sacred Gardens Quotes & Sayings

No offense to you, lady, but he's my dad and there's a whole family factor here that you're helping to break up." I turned my hand around and gave her a thumbs up. "But good for you. I'm sure my dad will pay you with lots of dinners and diamonds. If you don't get the private jet ride while you're sleeping with him, you're doing something wrong. — Tijan

A few minutes after the initial excited greetings they found themselves journeying in a maxi cab with a contended expression on their fatigued countenances as the moment held promise of forthcoming days of bliss and catch-up prattle that usually follows a family reunion. — Neetha Joseph

In matters of money there's no such thing as enough. — Jean Anouilh

It means I'm a fuckup, but I'm going to get it figured out. I swear. Just ... don't give up on me, okay? — Jamie McGuire

Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without risks, nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place. Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy ideal, because it would require total state control over its citizens' lives. Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons. — Ron Paul

To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless. — Bruno Dumont

Hard work pays, but not all the time! Hard work without a good sense of purpose, due diligence and a true direction and vision only leads to the ditch. Life is a battle and only those who fight well, by working hard with a good sense of purpose and direction, win! Work hard with diligence and find a good time for pleasure, for pleasure is a treasure! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author. Past events are described in a fictitious manner, future events are described as they will indeed occur, unless they are disrupted by historical agitators, which is beyond the author's control. For now. — Thomas Mullen

If the nature of the world is revealed to man through religion, then gardens, as places for contemplation, should symbolise the perfection of nature. — Tom Turner

You keep shooting. You hope it goes in, and you smile. — Teemu Selanne

By lunchtime the valley was lightly coated, like a cake with confectioner's sugar ... there was white fur on the antlers of the iron deer and on the melancholy boughs of the Norway spruce. — Elizabeth Enright

Characters begin as your children and become your teachers. — Chloe Thurlow

I am part animal and part God. — Dennis Prager

You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision. — Veronica Lake

The effects of the mescalin were already on the decline: but the flowers in the gardens still trembled on the brink of being supernatural, the pepper trees and carobs along the side streets still manifestly belonged to some sacred grove. Eden alternated with Dodona. Yggdrasil with the mystic Rose. — Aldous Huxley

In ancient times the ritual, mythological and doctrinal aspects of spiritual space were predominant. — Tom Turner

The other day I was playing Scrabble. I saw that I could close the space in D-E- -Y. I had an N and an F. Which do you think I chose? What was the word I made? — Amy Hempel

The arts which we now call garden design and landscape design have three separate origins: sacred space, horticultural space and domestic space. Like Homo sapiens, the arts of garden and landscape design probably spread to Europe from West Asia. — Tom Turner