Sharpens Crossword Quotes & Sayings

My mom is a master gardener and I grew up on a farm. I came back to it really late in life and discovered that despite how lazy and inattentive I was as a child, I had managed to accidentally learn quite a bit about gardening. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Universal brotherhood is not even a beautiful dream. Antagonism is essential to man's greatest efforts. — Theodor Herzl

If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from. — Barack Obama

The high-ceilinged rooms, the little balconies, alcoves, nooks and angles all suggest sanctuary, escape, creature comfort. The reader, the scholar, the browser, the borrower is king. — David McCord

Gro Rollag was no beauty, but she was a strong capable young woman with a long face, prominent cheekbones, high forehead, and a kindly intelligent look in her rather narrow eyes. According to family lore, she was not the most conscientious housekeeper because she preferred reading to housework. A love of books and reading ran in the family. Of all the possessions they were forced to sell or leave behind in Norway, what the Rollags remembered with deepest regret was the library they inherited from an eighteenth-century ancestor - lovely old books sold to pay for their passage to America. — David Laskin

It appears my hypocrisy knows no bounds. — Doc Holliday

If you want to see a miracle, be the miracle — Morgan Freeman

Then I remembered how she was - fiery, ruthless, smart, and despite herself very caring, not a person who hurts anyone. — Mike Bond

I don't aspire to rule the world. I just want to rule my world. — G.J. Walker-Smith

Everyone tiptoed backward and forward past the door and looked at her sadness like it was an exhibition. A jewel in its case. — Karen Foxlee