"Intentions are a lot like seeds. You shove them into the ground, and every once in awhile, you water them. Largely, the seed does most of the work on its own. If, on one hand, you were digging the seed up several times a day to see what progress was being made, the seed would not take purchase in the soil. On the other hand, if you completely ignored it, giving no water or nourishment to the soil, the seed might not thrive."

-- Mary Anne Radmacher

#Hands Quotes #Giving Quotes #Water Quotes

“All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.”
“I read good. I was an English major.”
“A joke is a very serious thing.”
“The eternal challenge for screenwriter adapters is figuring out how to make something work on screen, when so much of what made it work in the book were the thoughts of the character, and obviously wanting to avoid voiceover.”

Source : "The Surprising Connection Between Game of Thrones and Monty Python". Interview with Jim Windolf, www.vanityfair.com. March 24, 2014.
“And I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that because the days are long, the road is hard, the trials are there and I never know when, I have this little gray cloud that's over my head, when it's gonna start raining on me again. And I do need everyone's prayers. But I also believe that we're here for a purpose, and Mitt is prepared.”

Source : "Ann Romney talks about herself in Connecticut" by Maggie Haberman, www.politico.com. April 24, 2012.
“Listen, if the people in my district wanted to live in France, they'd move to France.”

Source : "An Interview with Congressman Jeb Hensarling on Tim Geithner, TARP & Team Obama". Interview with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. April 22, 2009.
“Avoid the profane novelty of words, St. Paul says (I Timothy 6:20) ... For if novelty is to be avoided, antiquity is to be held tight to; and if novelty is profane, antiquity is sacred.”
“I think for what success looks like for me, it is a world in which you can look at the achievement scores, the academic scores, of any school anywhere in this country [the USA], and you wouldn't be able to look at the score and determine what the racial makeup or the socioeconomic makeup of that school is simply because of the academic achievement levels.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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