Semyonov Yulian Quotes & Sayings

The exchange between plants and people has shaped the evolutionary history of both. Farms, orchards, and vineyards are stocked with species we have domesticated. Our appetite for their fruits leads us to till, prune, irrigate, fertilize, and weed on their behalf. Perhaps they have domesticated us. Wild plants have changed to stand in well-behaved rows and wild humans have changed to settle alongside the fields and care for the plants - a kind of mutual taming. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

Whereas the angel "came" to Mary (Lk 1:28), he merely appears to Joseph in a dream - admittedly a dream that is real and reveals what is real. Once again this shows us an essential quality of the figure of Saint Joseph: his capacity to perceive the divine and his ability to discern. Only a man who is inwardly watchful for the divine, only someone with a real sensitivity for God and his ways, can receive God's message in this way. — Pope Benedict XVI

Well, I don't care," said Bird out loud, said Bird, who cared so much that she couldn't bear to touch the hurt. "I don't care. I ran away from Summer, and I will make my own castle. I will be my own queen. — Katherine Catmull

Spread on your bravery, line the eyes and the lips," I say under my breath as I write on the paper, "glue up the cracks and paint over the rips." I — Penelope Douglas

The moral values, ethical codes and laws that guide our choices in normal times are, if anything, even more important to help us navigate the confusing and disorienting time of a disaster. — Sheri Fink

Early in 1955 Flannery completed work on her second book, a collection of these stories which she entitled A Good Man Is Hard to Find. In January we sent it to press, having set publication for June. I remember our amusement at Evelyn Waugh's reaction to the advance proofs we sent him: If these stories are in fact the work of a young lady, they are indeed remarkable. — Flannery O'Connor

Our God of Grace often gives us a second chance, but there is no second chance to harvest a ripe crop. — Kurt Von Schleicher

Instead of men kissing you, and touching you, they revealed their minds to you. It was great fun! But what cold minds! — D.H. Lawrence

She has a laugh so hearty it knocks the whipped cream off an order of strawberry shortcake on a table fifty feet away. — Damon Runyon

live in New York and you got used to public transport. — Adrian Magson

I have been treated better than I should have been
not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women. — Charles Bukowski

Too many women have gone through. I am at last alone without being alone. — Charles Bukowski