Gertrude Jekyll Quotes

There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.

Gertrude Jekyll

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: celebrity
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: November 29, 1843 - December 8, 1932

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It's weird: I don't see myself as a tough guy.

Joel Edgerton

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Just as Chairman Mao and Joseph Stalin started by going after the intellectuals, against those whose words who might form an opposition to them, so Trump has gone across us. Free speech is first among equals when we look at what is being violated by this new regime.

Andrew Solomon

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I always wanted to act, but never thought of it as something serious to do.

John Cullum

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For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

Maya Angelou

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One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.

Merlin Olsen

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'New' movies are almost always hipper, faster, they mix genres aggressively, they smother their genre origins in new form, there are fewer of them, and they tend to cost a lot more money because you usually make more money on the megahit than you do on the steady progression of break-eveners. Except for the horror movie.

Stephen Hunter

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Expanding internationally is exciting and fun, but the hardest part is really about maintaining culture.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

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Pink isn't just a color, it's an attitude!

Miley Cyrus

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I am a terrible, terrible typist. I could not have been a writer in the age of typewriters.

Lisa Jewell

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My father wasn't absolutely delighted. He wanted me to become a lawyer. I studied law, but I thought the shoe business was more exciting.

Diego Della Valle

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When I went into the seminary, I was one of those victims of New Math and had not had Algebra I and had no idea what we were doing in New Math in the ninth grade. But when I went into the seminary, they had gone the traditional route and taught first-year algebra.

Clarence Thomas

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Being a mother for me was like, 'Oh, this is what I've been looking for my whole life.' This brings me a sense of completion. I never knew I would love this deeply. It's so nice not to worry about myself anymore. I only worry about my children.

Sherilyn Fenn

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