Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in the mans hand. He tried to drop it, but it stuck to his hand. His arm became a branch, his body the trunk of a tree, his feet took root.

Charlotte Bronte

My sister Emily loved the moors. Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the heath for her; out of a sullen hollow in a livid hillside her mind could make an Eden. She found in the bleak solitude many and dear delights; and not the least and best-loved was – liberty.

Charlotte Bronte

A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses; on hayfield and cornfield lay a frozen shroud: lanes which last night blushed full of flowers, to-day were pathless with untrodden snow; and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and flagrant as groves between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway.

Charlotte Bronte

I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me.

Charles Sumner

Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.

Charles Dudley Warner

There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.

Charles Dickens

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

Charles Dickens

The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power.

Charles Caleb Colton

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Jason Bateman

I love a massage. I'd go every day if I could.

Jason Bateman

I love a massage. I'd go every day if I could. I don't need to be wrapped in herbs like a salmon fillet, but I do love a massage.

Bob Marley

Herb is the unification of mankind.

Benjamin Franklin

Time is an herb that cures all Diseases.

Geoffrey Zakarian

I use the confit principle for chicken thighs. I season them with herbs and garlic, let them marinate, and then cook them in chicken fat.

Nelly

I smoke herb, but what's the harm it that?

Stephen Bent

Herbs have dozens, if not hundreds, of compounds in them.

Katie Gates

I wanted to do one on herbs and supplements and homeopathy. One student had approached me about that.

Leonard Nimoy

There are a lot of photographers who have influenced me; some of the great ones, like Herb Ritts, Helmut Newton, and [Alfred] Stieglitz. I draw from all of them. You're supposed to steal from the good ones.

Aulus Gellius

The spirits increase, vigor grows through a wound.

Alfred North Whitehead

The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.

Bob Wagner

That one (cell) was particularly vigorous and long-lasting.

Michelle Malkin

Nothing symbolizes American strength and vigor more than another unaccountable Washington bureaucrat.

Ray Bradbury

The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.

Geoff Mulgan

Vigorous independent and critical media are indispensable in a democracy.

Christian Nestell Bovee

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

Robert Crumb

Your vigor for life appalls me.

Michel de Montaigne

Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability.