A Quotes
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“A gardener is like a prophet looking out on a barren land and saying, ‘I see corn on that hill, and beans beneath the grove, and lavender in the field, and over there some roses by the brick wall.’ Don’t you think that’s what a good friend should be like? A truly good friend is one who can look at our bare lives and see the fruit of what will one day come from deep inside us.”
Source: Of Secrets, Spiders & and the End of the World
“A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close about him, and the grime and soot descend upon him, he can still wander in his garden, does he but close his eyes.”
Source: Down the garden path
“A gardener's grandmother will have grown such and such a rose, and the smell of that rose at dusk (for flowers always seem to be most fragrant at the end of the day, as if that, smelling, was the last thing to do before going to sleep), when the gardener was a child and walking in the grandmother's footsteps as she went about her business in her garden - the memory of that smell of the rose combined with the memory of that smell of the grandmother's skirt will forever inform and influence the life of the gardener, inside or outside the garden itself.”
Source: In the Garden: Essays on Nature and Growing
“A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, unites in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third.”
Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations
“A gardener's life is full of sweets and sours; He gets the sunshine when he needs the showers.”
Source: More Green Fingers: Another Present for a Good Gardener
“A gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next.”
“A gardin is where you can find a whole spectrum of life, birth and death”
Source: The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
“A gargalhada é mulher, o riso é masculino.”
Source: O Outro Pé da Sereia
“A garlic caress is stimulating. A garlic excess soporific.”
“A garment that is double dyed, dipped again and again, will retain the color a great while; so a truth which is the subject of meditation.”
Source: The miscellaneous works of the Rev. Matthew Henry: containing in addition to those heretofore published, numerous sermons and papers, now first printed from the original manuscripts. With forty sermons on what Christ is made to believers, by Philip Henry; funeral sermons for Mr. and Mrs. Henry, by the Rev. Matthew Henry; funeral sermons on Mr. Matthew Henry, by W. Tong, John Reynolds, and Dr. Williams
“A garter. You’re supposed to take it off and keep it as a memento. K-k-kinda like a trophy for going far sexually with a girl. It’s stupid, really. And kind of d-d-degrading if I think about it too m-m-much.” “I know what it is,” he says, amusement evident in his voice. “I just wanted to hear your explanation.”
Source: Rules of Attraction
“A gasline will help shape our economic future - the same way that oil has shaped our economic present.”
“A gastronome who isn’t an environmentalist is just stupid, and an environmentalist who isn’t a gastronome is just sad.”
“A gastronomer who is not an environmentalis t is just stupid. Whereas an environmentalis t who is not a gastronomer is sad. It's possible to change the world even while preserving the concept of the right of pleasure.”
“A gastronomical supermeal didn't necessarily have to involve the things I had brought from other top kitchens.”
“A gate has open.
A portal has been awaken.
Arisen from gray ash.
A beast is out.
This one has large wings and sharp feet.
Its heart is soft as flowers,
It runs fast and doesn't look back.”
“A gate to nature is a gate to heaven!”
“A gathering of Democrats is more sweaty, disorderly, offhand, and rowdy than a gathering of Republicans; it is also likely to be more cheerful, imaginative, tolerant of dissent, and skillful at the game of give-and-take. A gathering of Republicans is more respectable, sober, purposeful, and businesslike than a gathering of Democrats; it is also likely to be more self-righteous, pompous, cut-and-dried, and just plain boring.”
“A Gathering of Frogs by Stewart Stafford
Through the fence with friends,
And into the back field frontier,
Past the growing pile of lumber,
Shivers for the Halloween bonfire.
Down the slope to a boundary hedge,
Rusty bathtub lying like a crime scene,
And into the deepening marsh beyond,
For the ritual kidnapping of frogspawn.
Frogs leap through reeds and tall grass,
The bulbous jelly of many eyes located,
Scooped surgically into a container,
Up to our fort to study our live plunder.
Tongues of smoke from our twig fire,
On the derelict path between estates,
Crisps consumed in the darkening chill,
Then, satiated, a walk home for dinner.
© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
“a gathering of women and men linking hands in a circle. The full, bright circle of the Moon rising bone-white above them.
The group lifted their joined hands to the sky, reaching for the Moon. “O Lady of the Mirror and the Scythe. She who walks the paths both seen and unseen – finding that which is known, that which is yet to be known.”
In unison, they turned to face the eastern horizon. “O Lady of the Sun,” they called. May you nourish us within your warmth, nourish the valley and the forest. We praise you now, as you shine on your sister Moon: retrieving her from her wanderings into the world of the unborn and of the dead.”
Source: Lahana
“A gator smile past happy hour;
eyes above the filth of truth
Judging me from his sex swamp,
oh, this cold blood bleeds power
All dead at the kissing booth;
mirrored reptile tail-swing stomp”
Source: Altered States of the Unflinching Souls
“A gay man can be friends with a straight man. That can happen.”
“A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman.”
Source: Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir
“A gay murder movie is never going to be, like, breaking box office records.”
“A gazelle runs faster than us; cockroaches are remarkably tolerant of radiation; every being has some superiority; in remembering this, be very humble!”
“A geek by definition is somebody who eats live animals. I?ve never eaten live animals.”
“A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status”
Source: Lucky Wander Boy
“A geek is like a dork. Someone who’s on the fringe, who you wouldn’t want to hang out with. A nerd is someone too weird and smart to fit in with the masses. Like me.” “You’re not a nerd!” “It’s okay. I know who I am. I consider it a compliment. I like when people tell me I’m weird.” I cram four Cheez Doodles into my mouth. “I mean, why be normal?”
“A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.”
“A GEM IS A STONE THAT LIGHTS YOUR MIND AND SOUL, HOWEVER ALL STONES ARE NOT GEMS”
“A gem, like you, is made beautiful by being polished. It's not an easy undertaking, but a stone that exists undisturbed among others just is...but the most beautiful stand out because they face being alone, endure hardships and learn from what challenges them. Suffering purifies and makes beautiful, but only if the gem can shine.”
“A gem of a short film has a sense of pure joy in animation that is different from anything you see in a feature film.”
Source: The Art of Pixar Short Films
“A gemba attitude means going to the source to check the facts to arrive at well-informed decisions”
Source: Health & Safety, Environment and Quality Audits
“A gemstone's value increases with its rarity; walking outside the crowd makes your worth increase, not decrease.”
Source: Daddy's Little Girl
“A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.”
Source: The Poems of Alexander Pope: The Odyssey of Homer. Books I-XII
“A gene can be either dominant or recessive, depending on which type of gene it is.”
“A gene might be able to assist replicas of itself that are sitting in other bodies. If so, this would appear as individual altruism but it would be brought about by gene selfishness.”
Source: The Selfish Gene
“A gene segment has no more need of an imaginary mediation in order to reproduce than does an earthworm, any segment of which can reproduce autonomously as an entire worm. Any cell of an American chief executive officer likewise suffices to produce a new chief executive officer. Similarly, any portion of a hologram may become the matrix of a new complete hologram: each discrete portion of the original hologram contains all the information needed for reproduction (though a slight loss of definition may occur).
This is how the totality is eliminated. If all information is contained in each of its parts, the whole loses its significance. This means the end of the body also, the end of that unique object which we call the body, whose secret is precisely that it cannot be broken down into an accumulation of cells because it is an indivisible configuration - as witness the very fact that it is sexed.
Paradoxically, cloning is destined to continue producing sexed beings indefinitely - clones must, of course, remain identical to their model - even as it turns sex itself into a useless function; not that sex was ever a function: on the contrary, it is what makes a body a body, something which transcends all that body's diverse functions. Sex (or death) is something that transcends the entirety of the information that can be collected concerning a given body. The genetic formula, by contrast, contains all such information, but cannot transcend it. It must therefore find its own autonomous path to reproduction, independently of sexuality and death.”
Source: The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena
“A general air of surprise and genuine satisfaction fell upon everyone as they saw the pianist enter.”
Source: The Awakening
“A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles ... it takes your mind off the cost of living.”
Source: A production book of Brendan Behan's The hostage
“A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.”
Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace
“A general cry of "What book? What book? Let us see this famous book!”
Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood
“A general curiosity about the unknown sparked by the multicultural milieu in which I spent my formative years. There was a lot of unknown back then, too. I dare say it was easier to be an explorer then.”
“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.”
Source: The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1778-1802
“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.”
Source: The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1778-1802
“A general flat minimum-wage law for all industry is permissible, but I do not think that it is a particularly wise method of achieving the end. I know much better methods of providing a minimum for everybody. But once you turn from laying down a general minimum for all industry to decreeing particular and different minimum for different industries, then, of course, you make the price mechanism inoperative, because it is no longer the price mechanism which will guide people between industries and trades.”
“A general in time of war is constantly bombarded by reports both true and false; by errors arising from fear or negligence or hastiness; by disobedience born of right or wrong interpretations, of ill will; of a proper or mistaken sense of duty; of laziness; or of exhaustion; and by accident that nobody could have foreseen. In short, he is exposed to countless impressions, most of them disturbing, few of them encouraging. ... If a man were to yield to these pressures, he would never complete an operation.”
Source: On War
“A general is powerless without an army.
An army is directionless without a general.
To win battles a general and an army need each other.”
“A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that have changed. Once you adopt a new view of the world (or any part of it), you immediately lose much of your ability to recall what you used to believe before your mind changed.”
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow
“A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.”