Rhododendron Quotes

#1. The woods are a place where children can go to think. Children gravitate towards these spaces. When I was a child it was nothing more than a scrubby little overhang under a rhododendron bush, but it was incredibly important to me.

Jay Griffiths

#2. and the goodman beheld this apparition, which had bare feet and a tattered petticoat, running about among the flower-beds distributing life around her. The sound of the watering-pot on the leaves filled Father Mabeuf's soul with ecstasy. It seemed to him that the rhododendron was happy now.

Victor Hugo

#3. At the North Carolina border, the dull landscape ended abruptly, as if by decree. Suddenly the countryside rose and fell in majestic undulations, full of creeping thickets of laurel, rhododendron and palmetto.

Bill Bryson

#4. The hemlock tree is named spruce-pine, while spruce is he-balsam, balsam itself is she-balsam, laurel is ivy, and rhododendron is laurel.

Horace Kephart

#5. He was telling an interesting anecdote full of exciting words like "encyclopedia" and "rhododendron".

A.A. Milne

#6. A rhododendron bud lavender-tipped. Soon a glory of blooms to clash with the cardinals and gladden the hummingbirds!

Dave Beard

#7. Greece is at a dangerous crossroads. Other countries-Portugal, Ireland, maybe Spain-are coming behind it.

Loukas Tsoukalis

#8. Everything I did made me better
tougher, stronger, richer, smarter
or I didn't do it.

Allison Van Diepen

#9. A wise friend told me that we all could use more than one set of parents - our relations with the original set are too intense, and need dissipating.

Alice Adams

#10. The American Dream is not to own your own home, but to get your kids out of it.

Dick Armey

#11. Self-deception is an exotic theory, because it makes the paradoxical claim that something called "the self" can be both deceiver and deceived.

Steven Pinker

#12. I think part of why I have so many books around me and why I read every day is because I mythologize the writer. I don't do that with any other artists.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#13. I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on others, to taste their valor.

William Shakespeare

#14. They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#15. No departure from the truth of nature shall be discovered by the closest scrutiny.

Henry Peach Robinson