Shenstone Garden Quotes & Sayings

A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape. — William Shenstone

I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists. — Gloria Steinem

I've performed in China, France, New Delhi, and Indianapolis, and everybody just allows themselves to go at it and have a good time. I think that's what I'm doing through music. It's not about 'I'm from here and you're from there.' It's about unity. — Ricky Martin

A good friend remembers what we were and sees what we can be ... — Janette Oke

A walk is as good as a home run. — Tim McCarver

Time never changes, people do and they blame the time..! — Vj Nadar

Life is a precious commodity, Charles. It's time you achieved your full potential and learned the true value of things." "You're talking like a Stalinist!" I cried. "People don't get jobs to achieve things and learn values! They do it because they have to, and then they use whatever's left over to buy themselves nice things that make them feel less bad about having jobs! — Paul Murray

In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily place as to exhibit a view of the whole design. I have sometimes thought that there was room for it to resemble a epic or dramatic poem. — William Shenstone

My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology. — Simon Newcomb

But that slip of paper wouldn't disappear, ever, and neither would the image of his prostrate wife, and neither would the thought that if he could, it might greatly improve his life to end it. — Jonathan Safran Foer

We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. Spiritual selfishness always wants repeated moments on the mount. We feel we could talk like angels and live like angels, if only we could stay on the mount. The times of exaltation are exceptional, they have their meaning in our life with God, but we must beware lest our spiritual selfishness wants to make them the only time. — Oswald Chambers

I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and never rises to what one can call an inequality. — William Shenstone

If you devote yourself entirely to a pursuit, there is no way you cannot find beauty and fulfillment. — Daniel Gillies

Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden. — William Shenstone

The experience of having a child does crack you wide open. I felt like I suddenly had to rebuild the skin that I'd grown over the years before having a child. Perhaps that might be quite interesting in terms of acting. — Anne-Marie Duff