Where Dandelions Grow Quotes & Sayings

The orchid hypothesis by David Dobbs in a wonderful article in The Atlantic. This theory holds that many children are like dandelions, able to thrive in just about any environment. But others, including the high-reactive types that Kagan studied, are more like orchids: they wilt easily, but under the right conditions can grow strong and magnificent. — Susan Cain

If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn. — Andrew Mason

Dung is more valuable than any precious metal. You cannot grow food in gold. — Michael Scott

A man can forgive all manner of faults in beautiful women that in ugly men he find entirely beyond sufferance — Joe Abercrombie

When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor ... — Niccolo Machiavelli

It is not too late to take another path. — David Suzuki

Are vampires kinky? I didn't know. — Roger Ebert

The freaky kid was now staring at me with those purple eyes.
Man, I did not like freaky kids. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I know that by the time I was in middle school, Andre Norton was definitely my favorite author. — Martha Wells

The very first schoolbook that was written had God all over it. — Dave Mustaine

All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I fancied myself a witch and walked in dark streets to punish myself for my doubts. But I knew what it meant to be afraid. — Anne Rice

But I'm here to tell you that nothing could be further from the truth. Your soul is a living, breathing, organic thing. No different than your heart or your legs. And just like your heart keeps your blood oxygenated and your legs keep you moving around, your soul gives you the ability to do amazing, beautiful things. — Andrew Kaufman

The advantage of a permanent emergency for the executive is that even trivial things can routinely be accomplished by the crisis presidency. If everything is an emergency, all power is emergency power. — Garry Wills

I knew exactly what I
was doing: I was
doing nothing.
because I knew there
was nothing
to do. — Charles Bukowski

Love insists the loved loves back — Dante Alighieri

Something quite remote from anything the builders intended has come out of their work, and out of the fierce little human tragedy in which I played; something none of us thought about at the time: a small red flame
a beaten-copper lamp of deplorable design, relit before the beaten-copper doors of a tabernacle; the flame which the old knights saw from their tombs, which they saw put out; that flame burns again for other soldiers, far from home, farther, in heart, than Acre or Jerusalem. It could not have been lit but for the builders and the tragedians, and there I found it this morning, burning anew among the old stones. — Evelyn Waugh

Just as when we see a pig in a litter larger than the other pigs, we know that by an unalterable law of the Inscrutable it will some day be larger than an elephant, - just as we know, when we see weeds and dandelions growing more and more thickly in a garden, that they must, in spite of all our efforts, grow taller than the chimney-pots and swallow the house from sight, so we know and reverently acknowledge, that when any power in human politics has shown for any period of time any considerable activity, it will go on until it reaches to the sky. — G.K. Chesterton

Bearing in his right paw the shovel that digs to the truth beneath appearances, cut the roots of useless attachments, and flings damp sand on the fires of greed and war; His left paw in the Mudra of Comradely Display - indicating that all creatures have the full right to live to their limits and that deer, rabbits, chipmunks, snakes, dandelions, and lizards all grow in the realm of the Dharma ... — Gary Snyder

Aqualung was a difficult and very tense album to record ... while I was playing the solo, Jimmy Page walked into the control room and started waving, I thought, should I wave back and mess up the solo or should I just grin and carry on ? ... I just grinned — Martin Barre