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Liberty Hyde Bailey Quotes

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 15, 1858 - December 25, 1954

Topics

Good Gardening Effort Plants Grow

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

Johnny Ball

Life Work Age Great Worth You

To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.

Amity Gaige

Me Self-Love You Self-Esteem Who

We face a dilemma because although everybody is better off than they've ever been at any time in our history, we've also got the biggest gap between the rich and the poor that we've ever had, and we've potentially got a planet which is going to go bust any day.

Stuart Rose

History Time Day Face Rich Better

When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.

Tom Stoppard

Think Feel Shells Out Things Just

I know there's a certain love and affection for the homemade on the Internet, and I'm all for that, too, and I appreciate it in alternative music, and I appreciate it in B-movies and in Sundance, independent films.

Robert Englund

Love Music Appreciate Internet Know

It's great - that's the best part about being famous is that people want to get to know me. People come up to me and introduce themselves, and I make friends, and then I meet their friends. It seems like I have a very happy and comfortable social life, which is something I never had when I was younger.

Rivers Cuomo

Life Great Best Happy People Me

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

Mignon McLaughlin

Today Feel Wish Doing Yesterday Few

I don't have any children, so I've decided to claim all the future freedom-fighters and hell-raisers as my kin.

Molly Ivins

Future Children Claim Kin Decided

Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.

Jules Verne

Possible Everything English He

I first became aware of the delights of the natural world when my father, an entomologist, presented me with what looked like a twig. When it got up and walked, my delight was such that I wrote a poem, 'To a Walking Stick.'

Jean Craighead George

Father Me World Walking First Up

It's diamonds in your pockets one week, macaroni and cheese the next.

Jolene Blalock

Diamonds Week Cheese Next Your

When I was fifteen, I used to run around reading 'Adbusters' and dumpster diving, trying to find ways to make the U.S. government unwind into chaos through hardcore punk and metal.

Diplo

Government Chaos Reading Trying Find