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“At the weekends I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.”

Knows Play Running Kids Names Garden Soccer Weekend Tents Barbecue

Author:Magnus

“England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and talking in middle-class accents.”

People Made Stills Running Film Talking Class Middle Garden England Silly Middle Class Surprising Load Accents

Author:Stephen Daldry

“We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out We invented the Revolution but we don't know how to run it Look everyone wants to keep something from the past a souvenir of the old regime This man decides to keep a painting This one keeps his mistress He [ pointing ] keeps his garden He [ pointing ] keeps his estate He keeps his country house He keeps his factories This man couldn't part with his shipyards This one kept his army and that one keeps his king”

Knows Men Way Want Looks Ideas Country Running Past House Know How Generations Painting Revolution Kings Garden Army Factories Regimes Estates Pointing Mistress Souvenirs Country Houses

Author:Peter Weiss

“The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.”

Mind Running Flower Ideals Garden Weed Flower Garden

Author:Margaret Oliphant

“We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that. We started with a humble log house, milk cow, garden-raised our own food, killed a hog every year in the fall, and had the meat hanging up in the smokehouse - that was our childhood, me and ol' Si.”

Years Running Kids Fall House Water Poor Childhood Garden Hot Our Children Raised Humble Meat Milk Cows Hog Hot Water Bathtubs Running Water

Author:Phil Robertson

“You plant a garden one flower at a time. ... You write a book one word at a time, clean a closet one shelf at a time, run a marathon one step at a time. If you feel defeated by some large task, get your spade and dig the first hole.”

Ifs Feels Writing Firsts Book Running Steps Flower Determination Garden Tasks Clean Plant Perseverance Holes Defeated Shelves Closets Marathon One Word Spades One Step At A Time

Author:Jeanne Marie Laskas

“We seem to forget that everything that is good for the environment is a job. Solar panels don't put themselves up. Wind turbines don't manufacture themselves. Houses don't retrofit themselves and put in their own new boilers and furnaces and better-fitting windows and doors. Advanced biofuel crops don't plant themselves. Community gardens don't tend themselves. Farmers' markets don't run themselves. Every single thing that is good for the environment is actually a job, a contract, or an entrepreneurial opportunity.”

Source: Rebuild the Dream

“I think my love for books sprang from my need to escape the world I was born into, to slide into another where words were straightforward and honest, where there was clearly delineated good and evil, where I found girls who were strong and smart and creative and foolish enough to fight dragons, to run away from home to live in museums, to become child spies, to make new friends and build secret gardens.”

“For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out of glens and gardens of the Muses, and they bring them as bees do honey, flying like the bees? And what they say is true, for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him. So long as he has this in his possession, no man is able to make poetry or to chant in prophecy.”

Men Inspirational Long Reason Light Running Able Poetry Poet Holy Garden Madness Inspired Possession Flying Melody Honey Bees Muse Prophecy

Book:The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including The Letters

Source: The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including The Letters

“History counts its skeletons in round numbers. A thousand and one remains a thousand, as though the one had never existed: an imaginary embryo, an empty cradle, ... emptiness running down steps toward the garden, nobody's place in line.”

World War Running Lines Numbers Steps History Thousand Garden Empty Remains Rounds War Of The Worlds Emptiness World War Ii Holocaust Imaginary World War I Cradle Skeletons Embryos

Author:Wislawa Szymborska

“As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.”

Men Running Nature Essentials Garden Weed Gardening Gardener Herbs

Author:Francis Bacon

“Though snails are exceedingly slow, There is one thing I'd like to know. If I out run 'em round the yard, How come they beat me to the chard?”

Ifs Knows Running One Thing Beats Garden Rounds Ems Yards Snail

Author:Allen Klein

“... Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, 'so far from everything?' When I hear this question over the phone, I'm usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.”

Thinking I Can Running Asks Garden Window Phones Forests Ask Me Vegetables Urban Creeks Vegetable Garden

Book:Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

“...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use everything up. It's what I think to myself sometimes, as there need nobody run short o' victuals if the land was made the most on, and there was never a morsel but what could find it's way to a mouth.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Needs Made Sometimes Use Running Land Waste Mouths Garden Endless Parish

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“When I received the invitation to "check out" Fairport I knew absolutely nothing about them, all I knew was that they were beginning to establish themselves as an underground favorite, by playing regularly at the UFO club in Covent Garden. But the crowd I was running with at the time were listening to a completely different genre of music. So I had nothing to go on, there was nothing on vinyl, Fairport's recording days were still ahead of them.”

Stills Different Running Listening Goes On Garden Crowds Clubs Checks Genre Invitations Ufo Absolutely Nothing Vinyl Different Genres Genres Of Music Covent Garden Different Genres Of Music

Author:Iain Matthews

“As a kid, I used to run around our garden waving a stick and pretending to be a million different people. That's why I became an actor, really.”

People Different Running Kids Used Actors Millions Garden Sticks Pretending Different Peoples

Author:Douglas Booth

“I was a tomboy running around in the garden. I used to play on a local cricket team. I grew up with all boy cousins, for the most part, and my brother.”

Play Running Used Boys Team Brother Grew Grew Up Garden Locals My Brother Cricket Cousin

Author:Felicity Jones

“I was a tomboy running around in the garden. I used to play on a local cricket team. I grew up with all boy cousins, for the most part, and my brother. My mother was in the kind of late-sixties, early-seventies origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, "You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do."”

Kind Running Mother Boys Team Brother Like You Female Garden Who You Are My Brother Cousin Emancipation

Author:Felicity Jones

“Our children and grandchildren visit us regularly in the Élysée Palace . The little ones are constantly running around outside in the garden. The first time they were intimidated by this place, but now they move around here totally normally. I think it is important that people really live in this place.”

People Thinking Children Important Running Moving First Time Garden Our Children Grandchildren Intimidated Children And Grandchildren

Author:Emmanuel Macron

“Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale...Man likes to run from God. It's a tradition.”

Men Running Brother Garden Tradition Likes Boat Substitutes Adam Moses Eden Whales Garden Of Eden Jonah

Book:Have a Little Faith: A True Story

Source: Have a Little Faith: A True Story

“A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.”

Ifs Men Mind Kind May Running Fall Produce Garden Seeds Karma Useless Abundance Weed Neglected A Man Thinketh

Book:Mind is the Master: The Complete James Allen Treasury

Source: Mind is the Master: The Complete James Allen Treasury

“Within my heart a garden grows, wild with violets and fragrant rose. bright daffodils line the narrow path, my footsteps silent as i pass. sweet tulips nod their heads in rest; i kneel in prayer to seek gods best. for round my garden a fence stands firm to guard my heart so i can learn who should enter, and who should wait on the other side of my locked gate. i clasp the key around my neck and wonder if the time is yet. if i unlocked the gate today, would you come in? or run away?”

“With you, I am Eve. And you are my beautiful Adam. Let's run away, find our garden, live there together, happy. Naked.”

Running Together Beautiful Garden Naked Adam Running Away

Author:Ellen Hopkins

“And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a husband bent on jamming another one into her, a house to run, a garden to tend, three cows to milk, twenty chickens to feed, and four hired hands to cook for. I knew then why they didn't marry. Emily and Jane and Louisa. I knew and it scared me. I also knew what being lonely was and I didn't want to be lonely my whole life. I didn't want to give up on my words. I didn't want to choose one over the other. Mark Twain didn't have to. Charles Dickens didn't.”

Source: A Gathering Light

“Here I am in the garden laughing an old woman with heavy breasts and a nicely mapped face how did this happen well that's who I wanted to be at last a woman in the old style sitting stout thighs apart under a big skirt grandchild sliding on off my lap a pleasant summer perspiration that's my old man across the yard he's talking to the meter reader he's telling him the world's sad story how electricity is oil or uranium and so forth I tell my grandson run over to your grandpa ask him to sit beside me for a minute I am suddenly exhausted by my desire to kiss his sweet explaining lips.”

Source: Begin Again: Poems by Gracey Paley

“I am accused. I dream of massacres. I am a garden of black and red agonies. I drink them, Hating myself, hating and fearing. And now the world conceives Its end and runs toward it, arms held out in love.”

World Ends Dream Running Hate Black Arms Drink Red Garden Agony Accused Massacres

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“listen to me as one listens to the rain, the years go by, the moments return, do you hear the footsteps in the next room? not here, not there: you hear them in another time that is now, listen to the footsteps of time, inventor of places with no weight, nowhere, listen to the rain running over the terrace, the night is now more night in the grove, lightning has nestled among the leaves, a restless garden adrift-go in, your shadow covers this page.”

Years Moments Running Night Next Rooms Return Pages Shadow Rain Garden Weight Lightning Restless Inventor Footsteps Listen To Me Grove Another Time Adrift Terrace

Author:Octavio Paz

“Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.”

Men Mind May Running Garden A Man Thinketh

Book:As a Man Thinketh: The Secret Edition – Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams

Source: As a Man Thinketh: The Secret Edition – Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams

“One constant in a world of variables - a man alone in the evening in his patch of vegetables. and all the things he takes down with him there, where the easement runs along the back fence.”

Men World Running Garden Constant Evening Vegetables Fence Patches Variables

Book:Condolences of the season: selected poems

Source: Condolences of the season: selected poems

“These wrestlers aren't organized. They have no union, no pension and no insurance. You meet wrestler after wrestler who sold out Madison Square Garden ten years ago, basically running on fumes today. There's a lot of drama there.”

Years Running Today Drama Ten Years Ago Garden Unions Organized Squares Pension Madison Wrestler Sold Out Madison Square Garden

Author:Darren Aronofsky