Silhouetting Garden Quotes & Sayings

A well-meaning townie (W-MT) will sidle up to the desk. 'Any word on Tamerlane?' [Translation: May I turn over your significant personal loss for my own amusement?]
A.J. will reply, 'Nothing yet.' [Translation: Life still ruined.]
W-MT: Oh, I'm sure something will turn up. [Translation: Since I have no investment in the outcome of this situation, it costs me nothing to be optimistic.] — Gabrielle Zevin

While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves. — Pema Chodron

Quality, it seems, is a necessary, but insufficient attribute for success. — Derek Thompson

You don't have to be singing specifically about things that are going on in your life, but because of the nature of music, because it is this incredibly emotional phenomenon, everything that you are feeling or experiencing is relayed in the music you put out. — Seal

When we exalt ourselves higher than God then we are no longer serving Him, but ourselves. — Sunday Adelaja

I am not a rabid partisan. — Joe Wilson

Momentum,' She repeats. 'You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run. — Lauren DeStefano

Perhaps the most likely answer is that, in the Bible, six is the number for human beings. People were created on the sixth day, and they are to work six of seven days. A Hebrew could not be a slave for more than six years. God's number, on the other hand, is seven. He created seven days in a week. There are seven colors in the visible spectrum and seven notes in a musical scale. Biblically, there are seven feasts of Jehovah (Leviticus 23); seven sayings of Jesus from the cross; and seven "secrets" in the Kingdom parables (Matthew 13). At the fall of Jericho, seven priests marched in front of the army bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns, and on the seventh day they marched around the city seven times (Joshua 6). — David Jeremiah

All we have to do is to go onward and upward, and keep the commandments of our Father and God; and he will confound our enemies. — Brigham Young

At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of self-importance. — Doug Scott

Rumors of my wealth are greatly exaggerated. I have never been interested in money. — Maurice Strong

I'm allergic to chemicals in food so I eat only organic foods. — Carol Channing

If you're a poker player and you show up at a casino at 8 a.m., you're going to be by yourself or with some people that are rocks and just don't give you any action. — Chris Moneymaker

A pleasant companion reduces the length of the journey. — Publilius Syrus