"... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society."

-- Nan Fairbrother

#Educational Quotes #Book Quotes #Garden Quotes

“...we need to fall, and we need to be aware of it; for if we did not fall, we should not know how weak and wretched we are of ourselves, nor should we know our Maker's marvellous love so fully...”

Source : Julian Of Norwich (1998). “Revelations of Divine Love”, p.201, Penguin UK
“Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.”

Source : Anita Shreve (1998). “The Pilot's Wife”, Little, Brown
“Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.”
“Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!”

Source : Speech to Western diplomats, Moscow, 18 Nov. 1956.
“Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.”
“Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.”
“Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this should also present what they believe are public reasons for their argument. So their opinion is no longer just that of one particular party, but an opinion that all members of a society might reasonably agree to, not necessarily that they would agree to. What's important is that people give the kinds of reasons that can be understood and appraised apart from their particular comprehensive doctrines.”
“Passion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they cannot be satisfied. To say more on this subject would be to enter into the whole history of society, of the present state of civilisation.”

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