"I think if we all gardened more, they and all of the other birds that fly in the air above and light in my garden below would be better off. I know that God values them no less than I do. So when I plant in spring I also hope to taste of God in fruit of summer sun and sight of feathered friends."

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Source : Vigen Guroian (2001). “Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening”, p.106, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Vigen Guroian

#Summer Quotes #Spring Quotes #Garden Quotes

“You have a small period of time when you can perfect your career and become good at it. A lot of guys get distracted, which only hurts them. You must stay focused and work very hard at boxing.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Which is worse? Killing with hate or killing without hate?”
“We aren't where we want to be; we aren't where we ought to be; but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.”

Source : Lou Holtz, John Heisler (1989). “The fighting spirit: a championship season at Notre Dame”, Atria
“My husband really loves the red [lipstick], so I keep the red because I want to keep the husband.”
“Hold me? If you still want to, I mean." She looked away. "Everyday"--then he was there, lifting her into his arms, holding her like she was fragile and precious--"I want to hold you every day. Nothing will ever change that.”
“It is not the right of property which is protected, but the right to property. Property, per se, has no rights; but the individual - the man - has three great rights, equally sacred from arbitrary interference: the right to his life, the right to his liberty, the right to his property The three rights are so bound together as to be essentially one right. To give a man his life but to deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty but take from him the property which is the fruit and badge of his liberty is to still leave him a slave.”
“It would be hard to find a more influential book of Biblical studies than his Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic [1973].”
“There are so many angles to follow up: government incompetence, sophisticated charity scams, how insurance companies treat victims, construction of the levees, who will start ripping off the billions of dollars available in new contracts. Every single one of these stories is going to be a big one.”

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