"Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary."

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Amy Waldman

#Garden Quotes #Eden Quotes #Paradise Quotes

“It is an honor to be awarded with such a high rating from an organization as well respected as the NAACP. I am pleased that the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the nation, has recognized my voting record.”
“Members of Congress are incredibly blessed and fortune to have the jobs that we have. Nobody makes us run. Every two years we offer for public office, and if you don't want to do it then don't run. But the notion that you can make $174,000 in this country and be underpaid is laughable.”
“Jesus, all for Jesus, all I am and have and ever hope to be. All of my ambitions, hopes and plans, I surrender these into Your hands... For it's only in Your will that I am free.”
“Once I retire, I'm retiring. I'm done.”
“And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: "Look at this Godawful mess.”
“I know that family life in America is a minefield, an economic trap for women, a study in disappointment for both sexes.”
“The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.”
“If you haven't done your mental homework in training, you don't have anything to fall back on when you face.”

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