Fertilizing Quotes

#1. One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

Evelyn Waugh

#2. I would need ... daisy love, you know, pretty love, sweet love that nonetheless was ubiquitous in roadside ditches in the summertime, and instead I would get orchid love. Love that needed misting and replanting and pruning and fertilizing and died anyway.

Mary Ann Rivers

#3. To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her; for her love of knowledge had a fertilizing quality and her imagination was strong. There was at this time, however, a want of lightness in her situation, which the arrival of an unexpected visitor did much to dispel.

Henry James

#4. Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.

Norman Vincent Peale

#5. A couple degrees warmer would be good for humanity and planet, especially with more plant-fertilizing carbon dioxide in the air. [ ... ] But a couple degrees colder would bring serious adverse consequences for habitats, wildlife, agriculture and humanity.

Paul Driessen

#6. Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.

Marge Piercy

#7. In the garden the door is always open into the "holy" - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death.

May Sarton

#8. Love, children, and work, are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.

Bertrand Russell

#9. The TSA must think we're mushrooms. You know, the way they are trying to keep us in the dark, and the way they keep feeding us a fertilizing agent that comes from the south end of a north-bound cow.

Douglas Wilson

#10. MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.

Ambrose Bierce

#11. I need to be thinking about a few things at once. I think it actually helps because you're cross-fertilizing yourself.

Saul Griffith

#12. His duty he always faithfully did; but duty is sometimes a dry obligation, and he was for irrigating its aridity whensoever possible with a fertilizing decoction of strong waters.

Herman Melville

#13. I believe almost every author have gone through the terribly uncomfortable period between the time of shedding the seeds of a story and waiting to see it flourish as a published book, spending hours watering and fertilizing it. This is a dreadful period, frustrating and depressing.

Ama H. Vanniarachchy

#14. When the sense of the earth unites with the sense of one's body, one becomes earth of the earth, a plant among plants, an animal born from the soil and fertilizing it. In this union, the body is confirmed in its pantheism.

Dag Hammarskjold

#15. At first i thought you were one of the human students, when you'd told me about your parents i thought they'd killed your real parents and adopted you. I figured you didn't know what you really were

Claudia Gray

#16. If I don't want to be seen, you don't see me.

L.J.Smith

#17. Rather than letting our negativity get the better of us, we could acknowledge that right now we feel like a piece of shit and not be squeamish about taking a good look.

Pema Chodron

#18. Every minute, every second, the pattern of genes being expressed in your brain changes, often in direct or indirect response to events outside the body. Genes are the mechanisms of experience.

Matt Ridley

#19. not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end.

Anonymous

#20. I am quite wedded to the view that epistemologists should concern themselves with knowledge rather than our concept of knowledge. The analogy I like to draw here is with our understanding of (other) natural kinds.

Hilary Kornblith

#21. I'm a humor writer, so I don't always present myself in the best light.

Jen Lancaster

#22. Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus

#23. When we don't fear change, stress disappears. When we accept change, fear disappears.

Debasish Mridha

#24. I am grateful for the rare opportunities to look at my circumstances from a higher perspective, one detached from the dim outlook I normally insist on seeing. These periodic glimpses show me life's grandeur.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#25. I'm not trying to make friends, I'm just trying to make money.

Kevin O'Leary

#26. My favorite album of all time is 'In A Major Way.' Look it up, it is a classic!

Blake Anderson

#27. If we go to the white man for school ,we will learn the way the white man wants us to learn. We will come back and build the country the white man wants us to build. One that continues to serve them. We will never be free.

Yaa Gyasi

#28. I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he has to tell a story, but because he has a story to tell. The novelist's first novel will generally have sprung from the right cause.

Anthony Trollope