"The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through."

-- Alexis de Tocqueville

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“It is my hope that our garden's story-and the stories of gardens across America-will inspire families, schools, and communities to try their own hand at gardening and enjoy all the gifts of health, discovery, and connection a garden can bring.”
“It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language”
“Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.”
“I like my politicians and my judges and my lawyers to be simple. I think if you worry about where your hemline is you're really not concentrating on the world crisis.”
“Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.”
“Being the person I am, you know, the size I am, being a woman, being a black woman, there's not a lot of roles for us.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I find our society a bit noisy. I would like to contribute a little silence.”
“It's an old axiom of mine: marry your enemies and behead your friends.”

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