"If flowers want to grow right out of concrete sidewalk cracks I'm going to bend down and smell them."

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Source : "Poems, 1934-1969".

David Ignatow

#Flower Quotes #Smell Quotes #Cracks Quotes

“I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior.”
“This is a business meal. The calories do not count. I am mentally labeling these as 'business calories' so my body will know they were eaten in the line of duty and will process them differently.”
“Suits are looked at more now as a business thing which is kind of a shame. If you're not wearing it just for work, you should try and trick it up a bit.”
“everything that's worth having hurts in some way or other.”

Source : Lucy Maud Montgomery (2013). “The Anne of Green Gables Chronicles (Annotated Edition)”, p.361, Jazzybee Verlag
“The challenge is not so much to change the sound. The challenge is to connect and to create something special.”

Source : "Gustavo Dudamel: 'I'm not the messiah" by Alan Rusbridger, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2010.
“There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.”

Source : Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both”, p.116, Cambridge University Press
“I'm not trying to plant the seed that I'm the most fashionable NBA guy - of course, I think that in my own mind.”
“The child does not begin to fall until she becomes seriously interested in walking, until she actually begins walking. Falling is thus more an indication of learning than a sign of failure.”

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