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Gertrude Jekyll Quotes

It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.

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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Man Me Better Go Try Asking

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

Good Wisdom Wise Mind Think Advice

I rarely saw my Grandma Markle, as she hailed from New Hampshire and spent much of her life in Pennsylvania and Florida. To bridge that gap, she would always send scrapbooks, care packages, and boxes of treats made from family recipes.

Life Family Bridge Care New She

I've always felt, and I think I'm qualified to say so because I've won a few awards, that it's a terrible shame to put something in competition with something else to be able to sell something.

Competition Think Say Shame Awards

All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people.

Alvar N. C. de Vaca

Good People Me Handsome Country

I love wraps and shawls.

Satisfying a profit motive must never be the reason for law enforcement, and it certainly must never be allowed to support the seizure of personal property by those who we trust to protect and defend our nation and our Constitution.

Trust Support Law Law Enforcement

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

Sword Word Than Strikes Deeper Blow

The things I write about are completely removed from my own life, but people want to know the characters better.

Life People Better Know Want My Own

Unfair and deceptive business practices have been illegal in most states for decades. Yet traffickers routinely use what appear to be legitimate businesses - massage parlors, bars, nail salons - as fronts for their illegal exploitation. It's the ultimate business scam.

Business Unfair Massage Scam Been

I think there's no question but what the tail end of the Bush administration, Bush-Cheney administration, that we took steps specifically geared to try and free up the financial sector.

Free Think Financial End Try Up

You shouldn't be learning how to code when you're middle-aged. You should be learning how to code when you're a kid.

Learning You Kid Middle-Aged Code

Talking about the body getting old, there's a sadness to it in a way.

Sadness Talking Body Getting Old Way

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