Katharine Sergeant Angell White famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

From December to March, there are for many of us three gardens - the garden outdoors, the garden of pots and bowls in the house, and the garden of the mind's eye.
-- Katharine Sergeant Angell White

#Eye #Winter #Garden
As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom.
-- Katharine Sergeant Angell White

#Fall #Writing #Winter
Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton court; baseball diamond; restful green perspectives leading the eye to a background of flower beds, shrubs, or hedge; green shadows - "This lawn, a carpet all alive/With shadows flung from leaves' - as changing and as spellbinding as the waves of the sea, whether flecked with sunlight under trees of light foliage, like elm and locust, or deep, dark, solid shade, moving slowly as the tide, under maple and oak. This carpet!
-- Katharine Sergeant Angell White

#Leadership #Baseball #Baby
Home would not be home to me without a lawn, and if there are, as I've recently read, twenty-five million home lawns in the United States, at least fifty million other Americans must agree with me.
-- Katharine Sergeant Angell White

#Home #Agreement #Twenties
Fragrance, whether strong or delicate, is a highly subjective matter, and one gardener's perfume is another gardener's stink.
-- Katharine Sergeant Angell White

#Strong #Smell #Matter
There are too many coy books full of talking animals, whimsical children, and condescending adults. (Some of the most famous animals in the world have talked, but they talked real talk and they weren't called silly names like Doody and Mooloo. They were called names like The Cheshire Cat and they asked sensible questions like "Did you say pig, or fig?")
-- Katharine Sergeant Angell White

#Children #Real #Silly
With a few exceptions, the critics of children's books are remarkably lenient souls.... Most of us assume there is something goodin every child; the critics go from this to assume there is something good in every book written for a child. It is not a sound theory.
-- Katharine Sergeant Angell White

#Children #Book #Soul

I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.
Order, thou eye of action.
If you change your attitude you will change how you see the world and discover the potential it has simply through opening up your eyes to C Differently
Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.
On June 10, the worst storm in the series swept across the middle of the Indian Ocean and Wild Eyes was directly in its path.
As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid of Giza, the nation's capital, the czar's winter palace, and the Louvre - except, of course, that it was better than all of those inconsequential places.
It is reported from 'Ubayd ibn 'Umayr (radiAllahu anhu) that he said: "It used to be said when winter came: O people of the Qur`an, the night has become long so you can pray (more) and the day has become short for you to fast."
All in all, this whole period of winter 1919-20 was a single struggle to strengthen confidence in the victorious might of the young movement and raise it to that fanaticism of faith which can move mountains.
It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.

Katharine Sergeant Angell White famous quotes

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