London Gardens Quotes

#1. He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.

J.M. Barrie

#2. Jesus wants to make it clear that the God of whom he speaks is a God of compassion who joyously welcomes repentant sinners into his house.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#3. The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

J.M. Barrie

#4. In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.

Thomas Gold

#5. Clearly, you don't know much about horror, he said. Horror is premised on the experience of what we do not and cannot understand, whereas what you're talking about is mere low-class smut, which every schoolboy has encountered before he's in long pants.

Paul La Farge

#6. Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

Michelle Obama

#7. I prefer cozy and warm to stark and sterile. You don't have to spend a lot of money to give your place personality.

Shannen Doherty

#8. The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it.

J.M. Barrie

#9. Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.

Taslima Nasrin

#10. When I'm in London, I love to visit Kensington gardens and just sit in the park and read a good book.

Natalie Imbruglia

#11. Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement ... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.

Henry Ward Beecher

#12. I find myself comparing the feel and smell of brand-new rain to his kiss. His kiss is much, much better.

Colleen Hoover

#13. Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.

Albert Bandura

#14. Oh, what a tangled web we weave,' " I intoned, " 'when first we practice to deceive.'

Diana Gabaldon

#15. There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally smaller than the smallest of our London nurseries.

Robert Fortune

#16. It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.

J.M. Barrie

#17. The crimes you paid for as a parent: excruciating, to be blamed for something you'd never dreamt of doing, or huring someone you'd give your heart's blood to...One thing you learned as a parent was humility.

Roxana Robinson

#18. It preoccupies me until it's time to leave. It seems such the right expression of grief. I am sad, so in whatever small way I can, I will tear myself apart. They've taken what's on the inside and made it visible. If I thought it wouldn't be inappropriate I'd do it myself.

Jael McHenry

#19. London is the world's Garden Capital - as Los Angeles is its film capital, Paris its fashion capital and Bogata its narcotics capital.

Tom Turner

#20. I think the job of a good journalist, especially in Washington, is to create discomfort, and I think for a certain class of people, and for whom life is quite comfortable, I've created discomfort. So I take that as a badge of honor.

Mark Leibovich