Georgiadis Quotes

#1. Sea, give me a break. It's always been you.

Heidi R. Kling

#2. Since 1775, when the first Continental Congress called for a national day of prayer, there have been such events called for by almost every President. I saw the figures - 34 out of 44 Presidents have called for a national day of prayer. Some of those who didn't have died in office.

James Dobson

#3. Gardening is about communication, relationships, routines and life-enrichment. Gardens are places that connect us to the seasons and the life cycle. They're a vehicle for talking about esoteric and - as far as TV goes - alien topics such as beauty and fulfilment.

Costa Georgiadis

#4. One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects ... with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being ...

Mary Shelley

#5. You loved ferris wheels more than roller coasters because life shouldn't be lived at full speed, but in anticipation and appreciation.

Amy Harmon

#6. Expirience is the oracle of truth

James Madison

#7. I believe in gardening the soil as well as the soul.

Costa Georgiadis

#8. You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.

Ira Glasser

#9. Every creature and plant is part of her (mother nature's) amazing interconnected garden ... The whole world is a garden.

Costa Georgiadis

#10. Books educate people and educated people ask awkward questions of those who govern them. The educated, in short, are considered ungovernable. Better to keep people ignorant of the past and to concentrate their minds on the utopia that lies ahead.

The Economist

#11. Get growing. Back yourself and make mistakes. It's your mistakes and observations that are your greatest tutors.

Costa Georgiadis

#12. We're all nurtured by mother nature's cycles and seasons.

Costa Georgiadis

#13. I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.

Anna Deavere Smith

#14. There is not a metaphor, not an analogy, in slang, which does not contain a lesson.

Victor Hugo

#15. It's not just about facts, information and technical know how ... Gardens are about time, observation and intuition.

Costa Georgiadis

#16. In gardens it's not just plants and insects and microbes that grow. People grow too, and the best bit is that they don't realise it's happening. It just happens.

Costa Georgiadis

#17. The language of gardening fuels the senses: talk with your hands, observe with your ears and listen with your eyes.

Costa Georgiadis

#18. But we have to look after mother nature so she can look after us - the water, the soil, the air and all the life within it.

Costa Georgiadis

#19. I decided that if the shaking of her breasts could be stopped, some of the fragments of the afternoon might be collected, and I concentrated my attention with careful subtlety to this end.

T. S. Eliot

#20. I waver between a cop-out agnostic and principled atheism

Dan Savage