"Nature, left to her own devices, finds it hard to produce anything that is ugly. The work of the plant breeder should always be to enhance nature, not to detract from it....we should strive to develop the rose's beauty in flower, growth and leaf."

-- David C.H. Austin

#Flower Quotes #Rose Quotes #Growth Quotes

“Sometimes it's very hard to turn off my brain especially when I have an eighteen hour day. I try to stop working by 10 or 11pm but you know sometimes there is nothing I can do about it.”
“I really like the smell of the tennis balls, the new ones. I don't need to do it, but it's just my habit, what I do on the court when we change for the new tennis balls. I just smell them. Maybe it's for luck. I've been doing it all my life.”
“If you're looking to freelance, just get as many gigs going as you can, and you can make it work. It's about getting as many side projects as possible, keeping as many balls in the air as you can, and what you're doing, basically, is diversifying your portfolio, with the same kinds of rewards. One falls through, and you still have another one to work on.”
“It was you Nabi. It was always you. Didn't you know?”
“I don't want a record company, but I need one, unfortunately.”
“It is not my ability, but my response to Godâ€™s ability, that counts.”
“Were aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our allegiance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue between the government of Spain and the new Kerry administration.”
“Forced worship stinks in God's nostrils”

Source : Narragansett Club, Providence, Roger Williams (1866). “Publications of the Narragansett Club: First series”, p.52

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