Alice Walker Quotes, Mother Quotes, Garden Quotes

Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

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He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Garden Quotes

Let us cultivate our garden.

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For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Rain Quotes , Garden Quotes

I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Wall Quotes , Garden Quotes

The relativity principle in connection with the basic Maxwellian equations demands that the mass should be a direct measure of the energy contained in a body; light transfers mass. With radium there should be a noticeable diminution of mass. The idea is amusing and enticing; but whether the Almighty is laughing at it and is leading me up the garden path -- that I cannot know.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Garden Quotes , Ideas Quotes

We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Garden Quotes , Novelty Quotes

We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Garden Quotes , Order Quotes

If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Garden Quotes , Grace Quotes

If any harm is to come to Turkey's border security, if Turkey reaches the conclusion that this garden of peace is being threatened, it is prepared for any eventuality. We will take the necessary measures to reduce the risks related to cross-border security.

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In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Dream Quotes , Garden Quotes

Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Garden Quotes , Hair Quotes

I think it was in the Rose Garden where I issued this brilliant statement: If I had a magic wand -- but the president doesn't have a magic wand. You just can't say, 'low gas.'

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God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.

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And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Garden Quotes , Joy Quotes

Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Garden Quotes , Spinning Quotes

The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alivewith chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other’s names.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Laughter Quotes , Garden Quotes

Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.

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All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Flower Quotes , Garden Quotes

He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Garden Quotes , Years Quotes