"I've been trying to garden all my life - it just happens that I haven't had a big garden until the past few years."

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Source : "'It's about death as much as it is about life'". Interview with Dominic Murphy, Martyn Cox, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2006.

Claire Tomalin

#Past Quotes #Garden Quotes #Years Quotes

“New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse...”

Source : "Fats Domino Found in New Orleans" by Gina Serpe, www.eonline.com. September 1, 2005.
“Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.”
“Nobody else can give you a clean heart but God.”
“Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.”
“Remember that no piece of honestly conducted research is ever wasted, even if it seems so at the time. Put it away in a drawer, and ten, twenty or thirty years down the road, it will come back and help you in ways you never anticipated.”

Source : Speech at the Nobel Banquet, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2003.
“Self-pity is the campsite of self-defeat; it is a dark refuge for those parts of us that would rather wallow in what cannot be than dare to explore what is possible.”
“And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.”
“I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed.”

Source : Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.91, Golgotha Press

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