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“I can't resist a pretty plant. When I see it, I want it, I buy it, take it home, and plant it where ever I can find a place. If I had a similar moral code when it comes to romance, I would be divorced several times over by now. That is the reason I grow a cottage garden. I can stick everything in with complete abandon and no discrimination whatsoever.”
Source : Cassandra Danz (1998). “Mrs. Greenthumbs Plows Ahead: Five Steps to the Drop-Dead Gorgeous Garden of Your Dreams”, Crown
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“Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?”
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“Actions defined a man; words were a fart in the wind”
Source : Mario Puzo (1996). “The Last Don”, Random House Large Print Publishing
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“Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.”
Source : Warren G. Bennis, Burt Nanus (2003). “Leaders: the strategies for taking charge”
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“There's a powerful sense of reality to our concepts, ... These are vehicles we think people would purchase and drive today.”
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“Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.”
Source : 'Fortitude' (1913) bk.1, ch. 1
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“The maimed bodies aren't the worst. That's the easy way to hate war. The safe way. I - hate it just as much for the maimed souls that stay at home ...”
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“As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.”
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“We are happy when we are growing.”
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“I love having no sense of tomorrow or yesterday.”