At each moment, a poem might grow into a totally different shape. It is not so much like working in a garden. It is more as if you remade the garden every day.
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Related It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER This garden is your life. Of course, there are the occasional weeds—but more than anything, this g... SETH ADAM SMITH I much rather have a garden filled with different types of flowers than a garden with just Roses. Di... HASIB SHAHRIAR AZIZI It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN Auspicious Hope! in thy sweet garden grow
Wreaths for each toil, a charm for every woe. THOMAS CAMPBELL Each of us is like seed, planted by the Good Gardener so we might grow into something majestic. SETH ADAM SMITH Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM In some cases, the ideal thing with organic gardening is to have more than one garden - one plot whe... STUART GAUTHIER Knowledge is like a garden; if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested. AFRICAN PROVERB His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING A pineapple is a compilation of berries that grow and fuse together. When joined, they create a sing... SUZY KASSEM In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thought... ABRAM L. URBAN I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire! DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... Focusing on the negatives is like watering weeds in the garden. You want to remove them, not grow th... JIM GENOVESE I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or mere... FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE For me, my life is a journey. JAY ELECTRONICA There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into i... NICHOLAS MOSLEY Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society. ALFRED AUSTIN Re-programming your mind, body & spirit is like planting a garden, if the soil isn't right nothi... NIKKI ROWE My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It g... INA GARTEN Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle; Love is the work of wrestlers. The one w... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS Life is a risk. CARMELO ANTHONY Life is a lot like skateboarding. LIL WAYNE Teaching you how to grow a garden is better than giving you a thousand roses. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind happiness not always... LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI To change yourself you have to move from where you are and take a step, then you have to be willing ... BRENT M. JONES Each new day has a different shape to it. You just roll with it. BEN ZOBRIST Without music, life is a journey through a desert. PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right. POPE FRANCIS Unlike a Garden, a friendship needs two tenders in order for it to grow ANJIE HENLEY It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project. NAPOLEON HILL You have a manure pile of memories. Nothing you can do about that. Now, you can drown in the stink, ... REBECCA O'DONNELL I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar... GARY F EVANS... A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another th... BUDDHA California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see, But believe it or not, you won't find ... WOODY GUTHRIE Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to expe... STEPHEN FRY I support Alice Waters in her desire that there be a vegetable garden at the White House. I don'... MARTHA STEWART Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON In Berkeley, we built the garden and a kitchen classroom. We've been working on it for 12 years.... ALICE WATERS Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY His work is organic, so it compliments the garden. To me, the shapes and colors are as if you boiled... MARK MAUNDER Grow a relationship like you grow a rose garden. Give it the nutrition it needs to grow, and let it ... PETER SAYSOMPHANE Don't worry so much about tommorow and working,you might win the lottery and not have to work ever a... PATTY MEDINA When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily mani... DAVE GROHL Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed. CORITA KENT Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I'm in pretty good shape. As far as football shape, I don't know. Football shape is totally differen... BUBBA FRANKS Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully. Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty sa... LEWIS CARROLL Life is a blur when one is essaying different roles; it is so fulfilling. AMITABH BACHCHAN I'm in pretty good shape. As far as football shape, I don't know. Football shape is totally differen... BUBBA FRANKS Working in a garden calms me down. SEAN BEAN To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I suppose that every wanderer started in a garden somewhere. So few of us are born into motion. CANDAS JANE DORSEY If I hadn't continued working for a university, I might not think about it every day. LINDA GRAY Tremble: your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now. JUDITH MALINA Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking ... MARCELENE COX Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking h... MARCELENE COX Life is a school of probability. WALTER BAGEHOT This life is a process of learning. LAURYN HILL Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process. ANNE WILSON SCHAEF Everybody in life is a chameleon. MELANIE CHISHOLM I wanted to tell you that I just--I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous--like we barely know ... TAMMARA WEBBER Life is a grand party. EZRA MILLER A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. CHINESE PROVERB They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that ne... ZADIE SMITH As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where it's packed... CARL HAGELIN Every Saturday and Sunday, when the other guys were out having a good time at the mall, I was at hom... GERRY COONEY I've always felt that you can't do much wrong in a garden providing you enjoy it. DAVID HOBSON You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise. OSCAR WILDE Fantasy appeals to me and can be very much reflected in my dress - but then, each day is different. ... DAPHNE GUINNESS Every day is a good day and every moment is an auspicious moment. AMIT RAY Life is a journey and it's about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you ... KELLY MCGILLIS As is the gardener, so is the garden PROVERB I don't have to be working every moment. Why turn something good into a hard job? It's more ... MEL GIBSON I think teenagers in the States grow up too fast. In Canada, kids are exposed to different things. L... NEVE CAMPBELL Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise. GEORGE GERSHWIN When you're working against the best every day, that's good. When you get to a game, it might be lik... HUGH NALL You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like... BEBE REXHA It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... NEIL GAIMAN Life is a soccer field, don't you think? SHAKIRA What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning. CHARLIE CHAPLIN Fear is like a weed in a garden. Once you allow it to take root, it spreads, replicating itself, unt... BREEANA PUTTROFF You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL You get like a crazy person. I worked on the butterfly garden at Lenoir Nature Center and I'm not ab... BEVERLY SMITH I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what... HARRY STYLES (Cont. Insecurity)vulnerable and insecure as the person you are criticizing or defaming. Promoting s... AVIS JOHN Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the ... MARIE LU In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 ... BARBARA MANDRELL Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinki... MARCELENE COX The Garden State Film Festival is here to assist them as they take their dream and turn it into a re... DIANE RAVER
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LEE HARVEY OSWALD A lot of what I do in the book is debunk these conspiracy theories, LEE HARVEY OSWALD Whenever you fall, pick up something OSWALD THEODORE AVERY And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed. LEE HARVEY OSWALD of sound mind, but very strong-willed, and if his request for permission to remain in the USSR were ... LEE HARVEY OSWALD We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revo... LEE HARVEY OSWALD If the results of the present study on the chemical nature of the transforming principle are confirm... OSWALD THEODORE AVERY Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require ... LEE HARVEY OSWALD I don't know why you are treating me like this. The only thing I have done is carry a pistol int... LEE HARVEY OSWALD I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die. LEE HARVEY OSWALD I don't know why you are treating me like this. The only thing I have done is carry a pistol into a ... LEE HARVEY OSWALD I want citizenship because I am a communist and a worker, I have lived in a decadent capitalist soci... LEE HARVEY OSWALD Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve. ALICE PAUL I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date. ALICE TEMPERLEY The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way. ALICE WATERS I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this tim... ALICE WALKER I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire... ALICE WALKER It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated... ALICE WALKER After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to... ALICE DREGER After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to... ALICE DREGER Instead of constantly enhancing the norm - forever upping the ante of the 'normal' with new ... ALICE DREGER I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of hor... ALICE WALTON It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), and in our incorrectness stand. ALICE WALKER I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card. ALICE SEBOLD My father loved 'Godard and Truffaut.' He was more artsy. My mom loved the 'Bourne' ... ALICE BRAGA What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the int... ALICE MCDERMOTT You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city wi... ALICE COOPER If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with fo... ALICE WALKER How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house th... ALICE WALKER We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves. ALICE BLOCH