A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.
JOHN BERRY The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp.
JOHN BERRY The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
JOHN BERRY He's very precocious, very gregarious. Yesterday he was doing back flips.
JOHN BERRY too young to have worked with mules, but old enough to have worked in a sugar mill.
JOHN BERRY We increased her (painkiller) dosages and did not get any satisfactory response. We concluded that t...
JOHN BERRY It became a symbol of accomplishment, style and luxury. It has that iconic quality that people conti...
JOHN BERRY Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy.
MARY BERRY The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even ...
HALLE BERRY Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather.
CHUCK BERRY I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard...
WENDELL BERRY An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they canno...
WENDELL BERRY The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in...
WENDELL BERRY There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is t...
WENDELL BERRY We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to ...
WENDELL BERRY The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent fo...
WENDELL BERRY These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said...
WENDELL BERRY All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If...
WENDELL BERRY Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are no...
WENDELL BERRY The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
WENDELL BERRY This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I ha...
WENDELL BERRY To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
WENDELL BERRY The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsib...
WENDELL BERRY If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable m...
WENDELL BERRY Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and s...
WENDELL BERRY The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by ou...
WENDELL BERRY When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way y...
HALLE BERRY I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
HALLE BERRY Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and sh...
WENDELL BERRY When the darkness comes, keep an eye on the light - whatever that is for you - no matter how far awa...
JAN BERRY Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, e...
HALLE BERRY Being biracial is sort of like being in a secret society. Most people I know of that mix have a real...
HALLE BERRY Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuria...
MARY BERRY I wasn't the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn&#...
MARY BERRY I usually wear only a bit of pink lippy, but for TV, they add a few extra lashes to brighten my eyes...
MARY BERRY Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a ye...
MARY BERRY I was always nervous before a television show, and I still am now. But 'The Great British Bake O...
MARY BERRY If you are buying a larger turkey than usual, make sure it will fit in the oven.
MARY BERRY I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islan...
MARY BERRY You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it...
HALLE BERRY I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's li...
HALLE BERRY Having a baby takes so much from you. It's the most glorious thing you'll ever do, but the a...
HALLE BERRY While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as ...
HALLE BERRY If you're of multiple races, you have a different challenge, a unique challenge of embracing all...
HALLE BERRY Beauty is not just physical.
HALLE BERRY I do not love to work out, but if I stick to exercising every day and put the right things in my mou...
HALLE BERRY If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to m...
HALLE BERRY My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
HALLE BERRY I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just f...
HALLE BERRY I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.
HALLE BERRY I won't have a traditional marriage; I don't find the value in that anymore. But I am such a...
HALLE BERRY I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am....
HALLE BERRY You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love...
HALLE BERRY Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a ...
HALLE BERRY The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you...
HALLE BERRY In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as ...
HALLE BERRY I think it's always best to be who you are.
HALLE BERRY I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a voi...
HALLE BERRY Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No ...
HALLE BERRY There have been so many people who have said to me, 'You can't do that,' but I've ha...
HALLE BERRY Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at ob...
HALLE BERRY When I think, where did I laugh the most, where did I eat the most, where did I just feel good all t...
HALLE BERRY Geese appear high over us, pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, as in love or sleep, holds them to the...
WENDELL BERRY Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.
WENDELL BERRY Until we end our violence against the earth- a matter ignored by most pacifists, as the issue of mil...
WENDELL BERRY Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant wo...
WENDELL BERRY say that your main crop is the forest.
WENDELL BERRY If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously i...
WENDELL BERRY My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we s...
WENDELL BERRY In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind...
WENDELL BERRY Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may...
WENDELL BERRY The world is whole beyond human knowing.
WENDELL BERRY I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. On her beauty pageant days
HALLE BERRY History leaves no doubt that among of the most regrettable crimes committed by human beings have bee...
WENDELL BERRY As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic,...
WENDELL BERRY The most prepared are the most dedicated.
RAYMOND BERRY Peaceableness toward enemies is an idea that will, of course, continue to be denounced as impractica...
WENDELL BERRY It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
WENDELL BERRY Under the rule of the free market ideology, we have gone through two decades of an energy crisis wit...
WENDELL BERRY To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of surviv...
WENDELL BERRY The change of mind I am talking about involves not just a change of knowledge, but also a change of ...
WENDELL BERRY I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our pr...
WENDELL BERRY Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybo...
DAVE BERRY You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
WENDELL BERRY Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of hum...
WENDELL BERRY We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.
WENDELL BERRY People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate ...
WENDELL BERRY Cakes are healthy too, you just eat a small slice.
MARY BERRY A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.
WENDELL BERRY If you want to release your aggression, get up and dance. That's what rock and roll is all about...
CHUCK BERRY Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was...
BERRY GORDY When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent ...
STEVE BERRY It amazes me when I hear people say, 'I want to go out and find out who I am.' I always knew...
CHUCK BERRY I think baking is very rewarding, and if you follow a good recipe, you will get success.
MARY BERRY I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a t...
WENDELL BERRY I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle. I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop t...
HALLE BERRY I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't t...
HALLE BERRY A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic,...
STEVE BERRY We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good ca...
WENDELL BERRY Some of my fondest memories are holidays by the seaside.
MARY BERRY I've discovered that Motown and Broadway have a lot in common - a family of wonderfully talented...
BERRY GORDY Don't let the same dog bite you twice.
CHUCK BERRY Everything is a blessing, even meetings. Whether it's meetings or running gassers or lifting, it...
ERIC BERRY I'm thankful for each and every day. We never know when time is up.
CHUCK BERRY The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, g...
WENDELL BERRY We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
WENDELL BERRY That's all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth; I listened...
CHUCK BERRY Chuck Berry doesn't give interviews.
CHUCK BERRY Maybe it is true what they say, that playing these Chuck Berry songs is easy. But try singing them. ...
CHUCK BERRY I want to see how far I can go and how good I can be, whether it's in the classroom or on the fo...
ERIC BERRY I admire my fellow judge Paul Hollywood enormously, though we often argue. He believes presentation ...
MARY BERRY I don't like showing cleavage because I get cold, and if I had fantastic legs, I might wear shor...
MARY BERRY What I stand for is what I stand on.
WENDELL BERRY The improvement in 2005 from 2004 is attributable to extensions and discoveries from our legacy proj...
BILL BERRY The improvement in 2005 from 2004 is attributable to extensions and discoveries from our legacy proj...
BILL BERRY We just keep moving the cots a little closer together.
BILL BERRY From our early investigation, it appears parts from the failing engine penetrated the cabin.
BILL BERRY I was born in 1935, so I was quite young when the war started. I remember we were in Bath, and it wa...
MARY BERRY I take pride in a lot of things people take for granted, so when opportunities come my way, I just c...
ERIC BERRY The very best hotel I've stayed in is the Intercontinental on Park Lane. We went there for the C...
MARY BERRY I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor...
HALLE BERRY Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in th...
WENDELL BERRY The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosyste...
WENDELL BERRY I grow herbs near the back door, and you can grow a wonderful selection of herbs and window boxes......
MARY BERRY I loved my 17 years with R.E.M., but I'm ready to reflect, assess and move on to a different pha...
BILL BERRY We have three and a half acres, complete with duck pond and wildflower meadow and open annually by a...
MARY BERRY When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it...
WENDELL BERRY When I started, you had cochineal food colouring that would turn things pink, but you could never ma...
MARY BERRY All my grandchildren bake. On a Saturday, Annabel's boys, Louis and Toby, always bake. Louis mak...
MARY BERRY That's the misconceptions that people have, that Chuck Berry went to jail. They're just tota...
CHUCK BERRY Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
WENDELL BERRY When our William was killed, there wasn't a child bereavement charity. I was extremely blessed w...
MARY BERRY Charlie Christian played amplified guitar with Benny Goodman's quartet. He was the greatest guit...
CHUCK BERRY I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.
HALLE BERRY If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you...
CHUCK BERRY I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step feari...
WENDELL BERRY How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY He imagines a necessary joy in things that must fly to eat.
WENDELL BERRY Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the lan...
WENDELL BERRY Making your Christmas cake in September is perfect, as too fresh a cake crumbles when cut.
MARY BERRY When I was paralysed by polio at 13, I went into an isolation hospital and couldn't sit up, so I...
MARY BERRY No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer...
DANIELLE BERRY It's an opportunity for visitors themselves to take part in the effort to reduce accidents.
BRIAN BERRY The case was shoddily conceived. And he lost it.
BRIAN BERRY We had two goals going into tonight's game. We wanted to win the game and get nobody hurt. We accomp...
BRIAN BERRY It's like 'Twilight Zone.' You're seeing the same pattern.
BRIAN BERRY At first, I think people thought I was a bum or a damn nut, so they were leery of me. People are nic...
BOB BERRY I was real satisfied with how we did going against the big schools. Most of our guys are newer at tr...
BOB BERRY The cruise (phase) has been very successful.
BOB BERRY For a while, there was nobody cutting ships. You couldn't do it because of all the environmental reg...
BOB BERRY He was mighty tickled and was a good kid. But I had to give him a lecture on keeping a phone number ...
BOB BERRY The team is trained and confident. The spacecraft systems are healthy and performing as expected, an...
BOB BERRY I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days].
HALLE BERRY My husband is not in the slightest bit domesticated, but as the years go, by he's getting better...
MARY BERRY I never fry a doughnut! If you want a doughnut, go and buy one once in a blue moon. It's about e...
MARY BERRY I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.
HALLE BERRY At my dinner parties, I like to serve cheese after the main course because you still have red wine i...
MARY BERRY I always had to diet. I'm diabetic, so it's a lifestyle for me anyway just to stay healthy a...
HALLE BERRY My best holidays were in Devon and Cornwall when the children were growing up. We always used to sta...
MARY BERRY Listening to Nat Cole prompted me to sing sentimental songs with distinct diction.
CHUCK BERRY I added and deleted according to the audiences' response to different gestures, and chose songs ...
CHUCK BERRY This has ripped the family. The parents they're devastated.
CATHY BERRY This has ripped the family. The parents – they're devastated.
CATHY BERRY I thought the girls played well, and we got off to a great start. We have a lot of returning players...
CATHY BERRY I thought Emily played fantastic, and she really held her own. She definitely stepped it up, when sh...
CATHY BERRY You're life still goes one whether you want it to or not, you still have daily bills that come in.
CATHY BERRY It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
CHUCK BERRY Whose noble praise Deserves a quill pluckt from an angel's wing.
DOROTHY BERRY In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.
WENDELL BERRY Beauty? Let me tell you something - being thought of as 'a beautiful woman' has spared me nothing in...
HALLE BERRY “Eating is an agricultural act.”
WENDELL BERRY Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps...
WENDELL BERRY The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays
WENDELL BERRY When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what m...
WENDELL BERRY The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad ...
WENDELL BERRY I walked over to two firemen kneeling on the front porch, and I heard this awful noise. And it was S...
JANELLE BERRY I can't pass a plant stall without feeling I must have one. But my greatest extravagance, I supp...
MARY BERRY All-in-one dishes are among my favourites. I'm very much in favour of using the oven as much as ...
MARY BERRY I won't cook in deep fat. Years ago, I met a fireman who said most kitchen fires were caused by ...
MARY BERRY She's hitting the ball as good as I've seen her shoot, but the short game and greens were treacherou...
MIKE BERRY I'm just very grateful that the media has been so kind to me, because there's nothing unusua...
MARY BERRY Family life is fragmenting in this modern age, but it's up to all of us to keep it together.
MARY BERRY People don't want to see 17 pieces in neckties. They wanna see some jeans, some gettin' down...
CHUCK BERRY My first job at Gleason's Bar in Cleveland was $800 a week, when I was making $92 a week with ov...
CHUCK BERRY I won't do 'Strictly' or any of those ghastly reality programmes. 'I'm a Celebri...
MARY BERRY If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to ...
WENDELL BERRY Roll over, Beethoven, and tell Tchaikovsky the news.
CHUCK BERRY I'd do it again if I had to. We made it here all safely. That's the main thing. (Claudia and Joe) ha...
DONALD BERRY It is important that we collectively celebrate and remember Dr. King's birthday, so that it's not di...
PAUL BERRY I have no desire to be a centenarian. I think 90 is a great time. You've had a good innings. You...
MARY BERRY We are getting a lot of good stuff done. My girls are just working really hard. I admire their ambit...
COURTNEY BERRY Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and we...
CHUCK BERRY The media dresses things up. There's a lot of inaccuracy.
CHUCK BERRY The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana....
WENDELL BERRY Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and ...
WENDELL BERRY If you want to really learn your playbook, you just do it.
ERIC BERRY As parents are usually working, they haven't time to teach children about cooking, and it's ...
MARY BERRY Some people think the benefit of screening is huge, and others say that the reduction in death rates...
DONALD BERRY We're very happy (to get two sweeps). We heard a lot of good things about Minot State coming in here...
SCOTT BERRY Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there wil...
WENDELL BERRY