Quotes About Repton

#1. Humphry Repton, the leading garden theorist of the nineteenth century, defined a garden as 'a piece of ground fenced off from cattle, and appropriated to the use and pleasure or man: it is, or ought to be, cultivated and enriched by art'.

Tom Turner

#2. I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.

Andre Leon Talley

#3. An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

Eric Hoffer

#4. Who are you?" asked Shadow.
"The hardest part is simply surviving," said the man.

Neil Gaiman

#5. My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to her young matrix, her unknown heart, her nacreous liver, the sea-grapes of her lungs, her comely twin kidneys.

Vladimir Nabokov

#6. While praying I passed into a state of entrancement, and in that state I saw the angel and the plates.

Martin Harris

#7. The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.

Luc De Clapiers

#8. Without hardship, I would never have learnt to rely on God alone for help.

Lailah Gifty Akita