Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Andre

It seems with progress you gain certain things and you lose certain things. The automobile replaced the horse and buggy but you lost all of that nice manure.

C. S. Lewis

Wouldn't he know without being asked?' said Polly. 'I've no doubt he would,' said the Horse (still with his mouth full). 'But I've a sort of an idea he likes to be asked.

C. S. Lewis

A Centaur has a man-stomach and a horse-stomach. And of course both want breakfast. So first of all he has porridge and pavenders and kidneys and bacon and omlette and cold ham and toast and marmalade and coffee and beer. And after that he tends to the horse part of himself by grazing for an hour or so and finishing up with a hot mash, some oats, and a bag of sugar. That's why it's such a serious thing to ask a Centaur to stay for the weeekend. A very serious thing indeed.

C. S. Lewis

But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.

C. S. Lewis

I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the horses the new strength of fear for the last mill so that you should reach King Lune in time. And I was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.

Chris Gratton

We have to get on our horse and start climbing. We have to make a push when we get back.

Abba Eban

Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don’t worship it. Feed it. [Addressing a group of prospective contributors to an Israeli scientific research program]

Charles Caleb Colton

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Charles Caleb Colton

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be buried.

Scott Lewis

There are 1,400 troops here. It's so crazy. I got guys saluting me, and I'm standing here in my big old gardening hat,

Eve Best

I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place.

Marcelene Cox

Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.

Blake Shelton

I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime.

Ken Thompson

THAT'S THE trouble with wildlife gardening. For so long it's been a refuge for anecdote and old wives' tales that get handed down and trotted out. No-one's had anything original to say about wildlife gardening for years.

Clive Anderson

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

Claude Monet

Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything.

David Attenborough

Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?

David Gower

I started gardening with my grandmother when I was 6,

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Sometimes when we get overwhelmed we forget how big God is.

Brandy Norwood

I cried, I was so overwhelmed to meet Michael Jackson.

Marian Anderson

Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. When you get away from it, you wonder, did it really happen to you.

Nikki Reed

If I ever find myself overwhelmed, it's only because I am overwhelmed by how much more I want to learn. That is what drives me.

Keegan-Michael Key

I get overwhelmed when I approach things intellectually.

Harry S Truman

Andrew Johnson wasn't too bad, but he was overwhelmed by a hostile Congress.

Jean Houston

Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.

Rob Brown

You can sit in front of a computer and have a blank slate and be completely overwhelmed by the possibilities and not get anywhere.