Herb Garden Sayings

#1. Tobak Davenport, who is a cross between some Sugar Puffs and Lynn Faulds-Wood, was squatting there before being removed by the local constabulary after he went round to complain about Luther Blisset's pet turkey fouling the communal herb garden.

St John Morris

#2. Working on the native-herb garden in the front corner of the yard. Already thriving: thyme, hyssop, spearmint, lemon balm, fennel, chamomile, marjoram. Must add: lavender, ambrosia, valerian, mugwort, pennyroyal, gillyflower, and (when it's warmer) sweet basil.

Neal Stephenson

#3. I have raised beds, perennial beds, cut flower beds. I have an island on a pond that's just covered in peonies. I have an herb garden, tons of vegetables, raspberries. I have everything. I'm a green guy.

Steve Zahn

#4. And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#5. People value religion on the basis of cost, and they don't value the cheapest ones the most. Religions that ask nothing get nothing.

Rodney Stark

#6. The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.

Erik Erikson

#7. The greatest friend of the soul is the unknown. Yet we are afraid of the unknown because it lies outside our vision and our control. We avoid it or quell it by filtering it through our protective barriers of domestication and control. The normal way never leads home.

John O'Donohue

#8. And the Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast
Rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#9. As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.

Thomas More

#10. It is your life, if it has to end, you better go kicking and screaming and trying to have the best exit ever.

James Marquess

#11. Given Mr. Obama's lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is reasonable for those of us who support the effort in Afghanistan to worry that he will not be up to the job.

Jim Talent

#12. Fate is a great accident.

Arvo Ylppo

#13. Sometimes when I see someone who's a spirit of justice ... I feel like I want to destroy them!

Gen Urobuchi

#14. Good morning starshine the earth says hello....

Tim Burton

#15. And from this springs the extraordinary question: Did the Egyptians know about electricity?

Umberto Eco

#16. A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#17. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. America is not a pile of goods, more luxury, more comforts, a better telephone system, a greater number of cars. America is a dream of greater justice and opportunity for the average man and, if we can not obtain it, all our other
achievements amount to nothing.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#19. Reflection ingeniously knows how to convert a beauty into a super beauty!

Mehmet Murat Ildan