Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Lopez

Eden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation that create a sense of place. It is not a thing, Eden, but a pattern of relationships, made visible in conversation. To live in Eden is to live in the midst of good relations, of just relations scrupulously attended to, imaginatively maintained through time. Altogether we call this beauty.

Ann Voskamp

I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.

Dean Koontz

This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so.

George Meredith

Sweet as Eden is the air, / And Eden-sweet the ray.

Sherman Alexie

A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.

Henry Ward Beecher

There was never such a gigantic lie told as the fable of the Garden of Eden

J. R. R. Tolkien

We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile.

Mark Twain

Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.

Beeban Kidron

Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

Yann Martel

The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.

David Attenborough

Natural history is not about producing fables.

Brandon Boyd

Above our heads exists an infinity of unfathomable fantasiastics: and fields of future fireside fables trail close behind

Benjamin Franklin

Fiction or fable allures to instruction.

Joseph Joubert

National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.

George Washington

Providence has done, and I am persuaded is disposed to do, a great deal for us; but we are not to forget the fable of Jupiter and the countryman.

Joseph Addison

Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.

Northrop Frye

The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring.

Paul Saito

People like the serenity of walking through the gardens even when it's hot, even in the summer time.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens.

B. B. King

We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors.

Bill Shankly

If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.

Cecelia Ahern

It's like my garden, love. Everything grows. Including love. And with that growing everyday how can you expect missing her to ever fade away? Everything builds, including our ability to cope with it. That's how we keep going.

Bertrand Russell

I know a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were much consoled when they found he was planting trees in his garden.

Ken Thompson

THAT'S THE trouble with wildlife gardening. For so long it's been a refuge for anecdote and old wives' tales that get handed down and trotted out. No-one's had anything original to say about wildlife gardening for years.

Diane Setterfield

I am always happy up a ladder with a paintbrush in my hand. And I wish I had more time to spend in the garden - not least because I get good ideas for writing when I'm out there.

Thomas Hood

I can't do as much as I used to, but I can still grow a little corn, tomatoes and some cucumbers in my organic garden out back.

Matthias Platzeck

I will do everything to pay back this gigantic offering of confidence.

William Bryan

Gigantic troubadour, speaking like a siege gun / Smashing Plymouth Rock with his boulders from the West.

David Friedman

For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing high D's, hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times!

William Ernest Henley

Balzac's ambition was to be omnipotent. He would be Michelangelesque, and that by sheer force of minuteness. He exaggerated scientifically, and made things gigantic by a microscopic fulness of detail.

Tom Riley

What you don't get necessarily at drama school is a gigantic mix of people. At university, there's people from every social background, and you get to go through that period of being naive and not quite sure who you're going to be.

Andrew Motion

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

Hugh Laurie

The first big stars, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, you know, these were gigantic stars. I even wonder sometimes whether all music actually comes from women, whether the first glimmering of music is a mother soothing a baby.

Bill Clarke

You didn't realize how gigantic these things were. Wow!

Phil Klay

People lie to themselves all the time about what they've been through and what it means - I'm no exception. But you write those lies down - lies that really matter to you and that are really painful to let go of because they've become a part of who you are - and they don't work.

Leo Tolstoy

Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Repetition does not transform a lie into the truth.

Tom Nalen

Playing doesn't lie, you've got to go out there and get it done. And if you do, it doesn't matter how you got there, they'll find a place for you to play.

Marcus Williams

Playing a No. 16 seed, sometimes you think they are going to lie down and give us the win. We need to go out and take the first hit.

Jimmy Carter

I will not lie to the American people.

William Williams

It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.

Rob Kardashian

I think I lie way too much to even know what I've lied about.

Makosi Musambasi

I didn't lie about it. I was very drunk.