For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
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Related My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant ... CLIVE ANDERSON Learn to dance among the wildflowers never forgetting you are a blade of grass. A beautiful green pi... MARCY CHRISTON So long, I replied, may we all have one good flight before we rest among flowers and the orbits of h... RAWI HAGE As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant. BARBARA KINGSOLVER Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though so... PHILIPPA GREGORY I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain... MUHAMMAD ALI I haven't been to the free throw line in so long I forgot what it was like. I feel like I have to re... ANTONIO MCDYESS I've been drawing as long as I can remember. I think all children draw as soon as they figure ou... ADAM HUGHES If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evi... BARUCH SPINOZA I really wanted those free throws. They were fouling, and I knew they were going to foul. So I wante... ERICA FARINA I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant s... HERBERT RAPPAPORT I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship.... DAN QUAYLE I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship.... DAN QUAYLE Flowers are great for people. In general, just the exposure to growing a plant or nurturing a plant ... CRAIG WILSON I had struggled so hard and so long that I had simply exhausted myself, only to find that God had al... MICHELLE MCKINNEY HAMMOND We are still very saddened by the fact that Hal was never able to be free. To minimize stress, we ha... REBECCA ASMAN God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they... DOLLY PARTON Yes Rosalie, we all know how proficient of an assassin you are. STEPHENIE MEYER I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words ... JONATHAN SWIFT All good things are wild, and free. HENRY DAVID THOREAU All good things are wild and free. HENRY DAVID THOREAU It began as a small beautification project. We installed potted flowers. Then the businesses jumped ... CHARLOTTE HAINES Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought o... BERTRAND RUSSELL So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the ... ALEXANDER DOWNER So many events and moments that seemed insignificant add up. I remember how for the last Valentine´... SUZANNE FINNAMORE Ralph Fiennes and Edward Norton are among my favorite actors. VANCE JOY I think all children draw, as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only diffe... ADAM HUGHES The bulk of the (new) greenhouses are coming out of traditional field growers converting some of the... GENE GIACOMELLI Wild flowers grow where they will. RACHEL LAMBERT MELLON There are always little aches and pains but as long as I pace myself I should be OK. As for the ankl... MARTINA HINGIS No wild beasts are so deadly to humans as most Christians are to each other. AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS I do want to be a representative of the African community, and I want to hold myself and dress mysel... COLIN KAEPERNICK All I have on earth is me, myself and my word and I don't break them for no one. So as long as I got... IFEOLUWA EGBETADE As I took another breath, I saw the three stars again. They were not calling to me; they were lettin... STEPHENIE MEYER As long as I am an American citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold... ELIJAH PARISH LOVEJOY Bite me. STEPHENIE MEYER I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and d... JANE WELSH CARLYLE I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't ho... KINKY FRIEDMAN But some things are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself. JON KRAKAUER A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have re... ANDREW WEIL The human mind is so limited it can only build an arbitrary heaven — and usually the physical comf... SYLVIA PLATH He had a green thumb. He loved to water the plants and cut the flowers. He was so proud of how his t... LARRY GARZA As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they ... J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they ... MARCEL PROUST So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and painfully as to find someone t... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they... HARUKI MURAKAMI To a lesser extent (they like) the whites and reds, but blues, yellows and oranges are the main bee ... CHIP TAYLOR Alan Moore's first choice to be the Comedian... was Burt Reynolds. But I never saw myself as Bur... JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN Black Lives Matter has no more to do with black issues than Students for a Democratic Society had to... DAVID A. CLARKE, JR. Before we get to this, let me explain something about myself. I’ve been many things in my life. St... BRANDON SANDERSON The best love that you can give is to love yourself, in spite of your mistakes, in spite of your fai... SHARLENE PRINCE, SHAROCK P. I think fans are just obsessed with the 'Twilight' saga and then within it they might have p... KELLAN LUTZ The North Koreans said that they are willing to dismantle their nuclear weapons as long as there is ... KANTATHI SUPHAMONGKHON So long as they don't get violent, I want to let everyone say what they wish, for I myself have alwa... ALBERT EINSTEIN As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to ex... MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI There are a lot of black-hearted, mean-spirited bastards in the world. It's important that we hold t... DARREN SHAN Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves... CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ WITHOUT the flowers, the plant yields no fruit. Without the emerging fruit, ripeness cannot happen. SRI SATHYA SAI BABA I love to go out there and look at those bricks and imagine the stories behind them. There are brick... CAMILLE RAMSEY I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu... JAMES C. DOBSON Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all affliction,’ wrote John Muir. ‘Earth h... HELEN MACDONALD Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as ... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as ... FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn'... KINKY FRIEDMAN The flowers are so beautiful, but God's love is infinitely stronger for us than the beauty of ALL fl... CRAIG COMPTON Never... ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get fo... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD So often are they overlooked that black dogs on average spend twice as long as their lighter counter... FAYE KLEIN I'm really excited for the NHL. It's just time, after so much negativity for so long, for optimism. ... BILL CLEMENT Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am / And wild for to hold, though I seem tame. THOMAS WYATT It is a sensation not experienced by many mortals, said he, "to be looking into a churchyard on a wi... CHARLES DICKENS I'm willing to be under anything...as long as it isn't somebody's thumb. AMOR TOWLES ...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything . For a person you've... ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself. ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE Abolitionists believe that, as all men are born free, so all who are now held as slaves in this coun... ELIJAH PARISH LOVEJOY Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage ... JOHN BURROUGHS Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed! I ARE All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD I’m like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget. SAMUEL BECKETT Because as a youngster I longed to see the Black man free and I longed to see anyone stand up for us... LOUIS FARRAKHAN I don't know where I belong, so I'm free. No one's got a hold on me. PHILIP PULLMAN The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO The idea of the museum is to show my work since the start, and I wanted to show all of it, not just ... GIORGIO ARMANI I was so adamant about proving myself for so long and I've gotten to the point where I don't... MICHELLE BRANCH I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as they are going t... DANIEL RADCLIFFE When BEE in life not desirable , how can FREEBIES be. ANUJ SOMANY He's not stupid. He is working hard in the black and Hispanic communities, and I have to believe tha... MAURICE CARROLL This plant makes money. They told us that they were making more tires than they ever did before and ... WAYNE FRASER Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who d... ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Candy Bouquets are a delicious alternative to flowers. They are long-lasting and won't fade, wilt or... ANDREA MOSHER I have never had trouble with any actor being able to visualise things. They are amazing. As long as... DENNIS MUREN
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