Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jan Popa

Sprucing up the front porch is pretty critical. New paint is good and placing urns of flowers around the door, if the season is appropriate.

Jack Scoville

Places further north haven't seen much rain. At flowering time you need to see an increase in rain. A month from now it could be a problem.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What have you come to Earth for?' 'I'm having difficulties with a flower,' the little prince said. 'Ah!' said the snake. And they were both silent.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me...

C. S. Lewis

The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute is to the genuine article, but as the flower to the root, or the diamond to the coal.

Cecelia Ahern

life's kind of like a painting. A really bizarre, abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is, is a blur. And you could continue living your life thinking that all it is, is just a blur. But if you really look at it, really see it, focus on it, and use your imagination, life can become so much more. The painting could be of the sea, the sky, people,buildings, a butterfly on a flower, or anything except the blur you were once convinced it was.

Greg Oden

Our relationship is real. It's no fake. He's down to earth, and I'm down to earth. We'd never have a falling out over money.

Rob James-Collier

Particularly with internships, you have to work for a year with no money. How on Earth are you going to finance that?

Kenny Perry

Somehow, I've got to come back to earth here.

Marcus Aurelius

Rest lightly on her earth, for she trod never heavily on thee

Richard Allen

Most seismologists are surprised, and frequently skeptical, that you can predict the magnitude of an earthquake before it has ended,

C. S. Lewis

You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.

Carl Sagan

Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down -- toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth.

Carl Sagan

If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go

Shaukat Sultan

It is a national tragedy. This is the worst earthquake in recent times.

Bill Bryson

Cheapness is a great virtue.

Ayn Rand

Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.

Archibald Alexander

Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.

Aristotle

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

Lao Tzu

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Corrie Ten Boom

There is explosive power in virtue.

William Shakespeare

So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all.

Juvenal

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

William Shakespeare

To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue.