Hobhouse Quotes

#1. Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#2. Skepticism is essential to the quest for knowledge, for it is in the seedbed of puzzlement that genuine inquiry takes root. Without skepticism, we may remain mired in unexamined belief systems that are accepted as sacrosanct yet have no factual basis in reality.

Paul Kurtz

#3. My memory is not as good as it used to be and it probably never was.

M. Ray Holloway Jr.

#4. A garden is to be enjoyed, and should satisfy the mind and not only the eye of the beholder. Sounds such as the rustle of bamboo and the dripping of water, scents and sensations such as grass or gravel or stone underfoot, appeal to the emotions and play a part in the total impression.

Penelope Hobhouse

#5. I had bad endometriosis when I was younger, and a doctor told me I'd have a lot of trouble getting pregnant.

Liane Moriarty

#6. Nature soon takes over if the gardener is absent.

Penelope Hobhouse

#7. When people talk about the impact of mobile dating, everyone focuses on real-time meeting - this idea that my pocket will vibrate every time a hot girl walks by. That's important. But it's not transformative.

Sam Yagan

#8. Gardens are the result of a collaboration between art and nature.

Penelope Hobhouse

#9. Even the most irresistible flowering plant, one that I call a 'key' performer, is part of a whole cast; it has to be considered as a component in an overall look as well as for its individual charms.

Penelope Hobhouse

#10. Peace and love are ever in us, being and working; but we be not alway in peace and in love.

Julian Of Norwich