Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Blake Shelton

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

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.

David Attenborough

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

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,

Claude Monet

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

Renee Shepherd

That's part of why gardening is a joy and an art, and not a science. You don't always know what's going to happen.

Valerie Taylor

It's like, you can't take it all in. There's just so much gardening here, and it's all so different.

Abdullah Gul

We have completed our mission to the EU, now we are on our way to the Balkans. Our ancestors went on horse back, we are going by plane.

Louise Leakey

It's important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know that's a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common ancestors with the gorillas, the chimpanzee and also the bonobos. We have a common past, and we have a common future.

Kate Forsyth

When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.

Tom Snyder

Misers are no fun to live with but they make great ancestors

Proverb Proverb

From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor.

Robert Winston

It is possible that strong levels of belief in God, gods, spirits or the supernatural might have given our ancestors considerable comforts and advantages.

Dean Gilmour

There is a feeling of Elizabethan, and there's a feeling of timelessness. My desire is to make the past present, that it speaks to us today. A feeling of ancient ancestors who court and woo each other, so that it's kind of transparent and the audience can enter into this.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HANDKERCHIEF, n. A small square of silk or linen, used in various ignoble offices about the face and especially serviceable at funerals to conceal the lack of tears. The handkerchief is of recent invention; our ancestors knew nothing of it and intrusted its duties to the sleeve. Shakespeare's introducing it into the play of "Othello" is an anachronism: Desdemona dried her nose with her skirt, as Dr. Mary Walker and other reformers have done with their coattails in our own day --an evidence that revolutions sometimes go backward.

Guillaume Soro

Our people ask for nothing more than the recognition of citizenship, nothing more than the right to live on the land where their ancestors were born. Nothing more than their identity cards.

Arnold Bennett

You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.

Bellamy Young

The smallest act has repercussions for the universe.

Deepak Chopra

You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside of yourself.

Ashleigh Brilliant

The entire universe will eventually disintegrate but by then I hope to be in a safer place.

Dave Freer

Such as a universe that is not made of dead, mute, inert matter.

Barry Lopez

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

Carl Sagan

We are the universe experiencing itself.

Carl Sagan

Your god is too small for my universe.

Cheryl Strayed

The universe, I’d learned, was never, ever kidding.