"I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards."

-- Jamaica Kincaid

#Weed Quotes #Garden Quotes #Digging Quotes

“It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.”
“I tried to will them with my super mental powers so heâ€™d put them around my waist, but apparently I had no super mental powers.”
“What I wanted to do was to fasten my index finger and thumb at the bolts of your collar bone, push out, spread the web of my hand until it caught against your throat. You asked me if I wanted to strangle you. No, I wanted to fit you, not just in the obvious ways but in so many indentations.”
“It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.”
“Well blest is he who has a dear one dead; A friend he has whose face will never change- A dear communion that will not grow strange; The anchor of a love is death.”

Source : John Boyle O'Reilly (1913). “Selected Poems”
“A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.”
“I don't know anything except being female, so I don't know the opposite of it.”

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“You can't see other people's point of view when you have only one language.”

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