Quotes About Houseplants

#1. It's raining in Washington tonight. Plump, warm summer rain that covers the sidewalks with leopard spots. Downtown, elderly ladies carry their houseplants out to set them on the fire-escapes, as if they were infirm relatives or Boy Kings. I like that.

Alan Moore

#2. Compost makes houseplants very happy.

Shalom Harlow

#3. I didn't know someone could find a way to be conceited about houseplants, but Connor has lots of talent in making his belongings seem superior.

Becca Ritchie

#4. Finally, I get to have houseplants and they stay alive.

Linda Vester

#5. It seemed everyone knew their place in it, but I was in the mood where I would rather be alone and look a houseplants.

Ava Dellaira

#6. In life, we must first learn to crawl, then stand, then walk, then run, and only then, fly. We cannot crawl into flying.

R.v.m.

#7. Her name is Ago, and she belonged to the last culture to evolve in North America.

N. Scott Momaday

#8. Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.

Baron De Montesquieu

#9. Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

Ayn Rand

#10. One of the dogs in the competition, a Portuguese Water Dog, is related to President Obama's dog, Bo. But they only see each other at funerals and weddings.

David Letterman

#11. She was a very unhappy person most of her life. She went to hospitals all the time. All kinds of hospitals. Finally, she went to a hospital that helped her figure things out enough to try and make things normal, so she moved in with my family.

Stephen Chbosky

#12. I didn't want to look distinguished; I wanted to look fun, and also to fade into the street, into the King's Road. If I don't fade into a room at White's, that's fine. My father was chairman of Brooks' and the Beefsteak, and I was brought up in that life, and it bores me rigid.

Nicholas Haslam

#13. And most of all, she loved the way books could transport her from her otherwise mundane and stifling life and offer the experiences of a hundred other lives.

Cynthia Hand

#14. The incarnation is God's own act of identification with the broken, the poor, with sinful humanity.

Thomas C. Oden