"I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green."

-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

#Taken Quotes #Garden Quotes #Sight Quotes

“It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the evolutionary process - that this protÃ©gÃ© of supernatural intellect couldn't think of a better way to forgive our sins than to have himself tortured to death.”
“Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for the third time wealth; wealth, not of society, but of the puny individual, was its only and final aim.”
“Between lovers, betrayal is always the worst sin.”
“A YA heroine does not have to pick up a weapon nor wear men's clothing to be equal to her male counterparts.”
“Our estimates are that none of them will come out alive unless they surrender to us quickly.”
“I'm not much of a revenge person, because I think when you start with revenge it cheapens what you've been through.”

Source : Interview with Shawn Adler, www.ign.com. July 26, 2006.
“I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.”
“God in the whizzing of a pleasant wind Shall march upon the tops of mulberry trees.”

Source : George Peele (1829). “The Works of George Peele: David and Bethsabe. Battle of Alcazar. Device of the pageant borne before Woolstone Dixi. Descensus Astrææ. A farewell to Sir John Norris and Sir Francis Drake, &c., and a Tale of Troy. Polyhymnia. The honour of the Garter. Misc”, p.62

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