Shipes Landscaping Quotes & Sayings

When most people in the West think about Africa, is their first thought about the game reserves and who's chasing gazelles, or are they looking at Africans as people who are equally equipped to do great things, as in the West? — Djimon Hounsou

Unless you experience the unpleasant symptoms of being wrong, your brain will never revise its models. Before your neurons can succeed, they must repeatedly fail. There are no shortcuts for this painstaking process. — Jonah Lehrer

It's time to quit fucking around, don't you know that? When you start to see colored footprints on the sidewalk, it's time to quit fucking around and go to the doctor. — Stephen King

Girls like you want to cut guy's nuts off and hang 'em from your rearview mirror. — Simone Elkeles

When I was eight, nine years of age, my mother bought me a pair of green trousers - corduroy green trousers. I didn't like green, and I basically buried them underground. And my mother kept asking me, 'Where are your trousers?' I said, 'Oh, I don't know.' And from then on I stopped wearing green. — Brunello Cucinelli

The government of the world's most powerful nation is running furiously in place. — Ron Suskind

Hold my hands and let walk together. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet. — Christian Morgenstern

The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky. — William Carlos Williams

Dawn comes before sleep does. — Suzanne Collins

Adam Trask to Cathy: "You know about the ugliness in people. You showed me the pictures. You use all the sad, weak parts of a man, and God knows he has them." ... "But you-yes, that's right- you don't know about the rest. You don't believe I brought you the letter because I don't want your money. You don't believe I love you. And the men who come to you here with their ugliness, the men in the pictures- you don't believe those men could have goodness and beauty in them. You see only one side, and you think-more than that, you're sure- that's all there is.'
" ... I seem to know that there's a part of you missing. Some men can't see the colour green, but they may never know they can't. I think you are only part of a human. I can't do anything about that. ut I wonder whether you ever feel that something invisible is all around you. It would be horrible if you knew it was there and couldn't see or feel it. That would be horrible. — John Steinbeck

Anticipation almost always exceeds the reality of that which we anticipated. — Dov Davidoff

Inasmuch as it is manifest from experience that if the Holy Bible, translated into the vulgar tongue, be indiscriminately allowed to every one, the rashness of men will cause more evil than good to arise from it ... — Pope Pius IV