"A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them."

-- Liberty Hyde Bailey

#Ambition Quotes #Garden Quotes #Effort Quotes

“In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die.”

Source : John Chancellor (1995). “The New News Business: A Guide to Writing and Reporting”, Harper Perennial
“Do not let the hero in your soul perish...”
“What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with reason and knowledge of right should mar His gifts....”
“There arenâ€™t enough people who care about the future. They are too busy worrying about today and what they can grab now”
“Sometimes when Australians go overseas, it's as though the 'Aussie' is refined out of them. I don't know why. It's never happened to me, because I'm really proud of it. I'm not embarrassed about where I'm from or who I am any more. I know who I am. I don't fit in everywhere, but I know where I do fit in.”
“The Green Belt is a Labour achievement - and we mean to build on it.”

Source : "Passing Comment". The Times, January 31, 1998.
“In every state of the Union, Fundamentalists still fight to ban all the science they dislike and prosecute all who teach it. To them, 'traditional family values' denotes their right to keep their children as ignorant as their grandparents (and to hate the same folks grand-dad hated.)”
“It's like Scott Wolf, I never thought he looked like Tom Cruise until somebody said it and now that they've said it, I see it every time I look at him!”

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