Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.

Charles Dickens

All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.

Charles Dickens

He would make a lovely corpse.

Charles Dickens

It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.

Charles Dickens

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Charles Dickens

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Charles Dickens

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Charles Caleb Colton

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

Charles Caleb Colton

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

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.

David Attenborough

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

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.

Eve Best

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

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,

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.

Hilarie Burton

Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails.

David Mitchell

Do ants get headaches?

Bill Bradley

like ants in the kitchen - without closing all the holes, there is always a way in.

David Holway

The extent to which urban runoff can be reduced or contained, problems associated with Argentine ants should diminish. Whenever I'm out in the field and someone asks what I'm doing and I tell them I study Argentine ants, the first thing they want to know is, How do I get rid of the ants from my home?

Dennis Nelson

When they die here naturally, wings get beat up, ants eat off the head or antenna. There's so much damage it'd be a ruined species. It would hurt me more to see that specium ruined and we didn't let more people see it.

Paul Haggis

I'm such an antsy type of person. I can't write in a room without other people around. I write in coffee shops.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns?

Manu Ginobili

We were a little antsy to play the game, but at the same time you want to do too many things in the first minutes.

Michael Hawley

People will jump on it like ants on a muffin,

Jami Attenberg

We are human beings, not ants.