Bonnett Quotes

#1. A digging fork is a stout, short-handled tool with four flat tines about a foot long ... for weeding I use it delicately to nudge the soil loose from roots without breaking them ...

Sara Bonnett Stein

#2. Absent one, how I miss you on this shore
that conjures you and fades if you're away

Eugenio Montale

#3. Turning complex, diverse places into shallow, simple ones creates a more culturally vulnerable population, an unrooted mass whose only linking thread lies in the ideology that is fed to them from above.

Alastair Bonnett

#4. I do not like being an old gal. But I've decided to be the best old gal I know how to be.

Joanna J. Gnadt

#5. Janet's a serious racer with some good race-car stuff. She can get the job done. I respect her as a racer.

Neil Bonnett

#6. I didn't like to stop playing for a second to bother with eating or going to the bathroom. I was a really skinny kid, and I remember my mother always telling people, 'I don't know how she's alive. I think she gets all of her nutrients from air pollution.'

Tig Notaro

#7. Competition is a sin.

John D. Rockefeller

#8. Following the herd is fine, until they all run off the side of a cliff together.

Glenn Beck

#9. I had joined Yes in 1971. I was a classically trained musician who had worked with numerous artists as a session musician. I played on David Bowie's 'Life On Mars,' Cat Stevens's 'Morning Has Broken' and even on some Des O'Connor records, though I kept that quiet.

Rick Wakeman

#10. He'll take some pleasure from that, Brian Carey. He and Steve Bull have been having it off all afternoon.

Ron Atkinson

#11. The world needs ditch diggers, too.

Ted Knight

#12. down. Remember Zivelena, who became the Queen of Metinna with the help of the gnome Rumplestelt, and in return promised him her firstborn?

Andrzej Sapkowski

#13. It's the flock, the grove, that matters. Our responsibility is to species, not to specimens; to communities, not to individuals.

Sara Bonnett Stein

#14. If we possessed the facility to fully plumb the depths of the Creator's thoughts, He would not be God, because God's thoughts are beyond the range of human understanding - unimaginably far beyond anything we could ever imagine.

Leary Bonnett

#15. I have seen incredible bravery from very young guys, the young generation that people write off.

Ross Kemp

#16. After returning from Cambridge in 1936, I did some work with J. M. Mioz on the oxidation of fatty acids in liver.

Luis Federico Leloir

#17. A weed is a plant that is not only in the wrong place, but intends to stay.

Sara Bonnett Stein

#18. I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error.

Sara Bonnett Stein

#19. There is no solemnity so deep, to a right-thinking creature, as that of dawn.

John Ruskin

#20. Idolatry is attached to everything. All of our bitterness, all our impurity, all our malice, all of our problems, everything that troubles us is a result of idolatry. And what is idolatry? It's taking a good thing and making it an ultimate thing.

Timothy Keller

#21. Racing is dangerous, but I've been in a lot worse situations as a pipe fitter.

Neil Bonnett

#22. I dream of land, cut only where streams glistened with birdsong wander through quiet hills burnt hard by the scrape of wind, and of a porch from which a single road leads only homeward.

Nancy E. Turner

#23. I have discovered that you can go from nowhere to somewhere, from nothing to something, from a nobody to a somebody, from an empty person to a fulfilled one, if you have faith in God.

Robert H. Schuller