"As long as one has a garden, one has a future. As long as one has a future, one is alive."

-- Frances Hodgson Burnett

#Garden Quotes #Long Quotes #Alive Quotes

“Next time you wish to feed me poison, warn me first," Loor demanded. (The Merchant of Death)”
“He was waiting for something from me. Acknowledgement. Validation. Commiseration, perhaps. I couldnâ€™t even look at him because I was afraid of feeling any more than I already did.”
“My childhood was appalling.”
“I'm from a big family - I'm the youngest of seven - and my wife is one of four. So we always wanted a lot of kids. It's what we're used to, and for us it's what life is all about.”
“The Divine glory is an object only worthy of attention; and to display his holy character, was the design of God in creation' as there were no after beings existing antecedent therto, to attract the mind of Jehovah; and we are sure that God is pursing the same thing still, and always will.”

Source : "Black Preacher to White America: The Collected Writings of Lemuel Haynes, 1774-1833".
“To be a dog woman is not necessarily to be downtrodden; that has very little to do with it. In these pictures every woman's a dog woman, not downtrodden, but powerful. To be ***** is good. It's physical. Eating, snarling, all activities to do with sensation are positive. To picture a woman as a dog is utterly believable.”
“Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.”
“A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life. And he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts; ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to use them as aids to his more rapid progress, and as a means of the hidden powers and possibilities within himself.”

Source : James Allen (2016). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.10, Xist Publishing

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