Schwartzs Greenhouse Quotes

#1. My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn't want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer - the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn't want there to be any problems.

Diana Ross

#2. Every walker is a guard on patrol to protect the ineffable.

Rebecca Solnit

#3. I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

Norman Cousins

#5. I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.

David LaChapelle

#6. You're one funny enchilada,

M T Anderson

#7. We need a new imprinting. We need the imprinting of enlightenment, of freedom. That comes through our association with a higher being. So classically what occurs is that one meets a teacher.

Frederick Lenz

#8. Wood was the main source of energy in the world until the eighteen-fifties, and it still could be. Roughly a tenth of the annual growth of all the trees on earth could yield alcohol enough to run everything that now uses coal and petroleum - every airplane, every industry, every automobile.

John McPhee

#9. It was surprising to consider that in fact there were signs, that is the embers of a voice destroyed by fire.

Alessandro Baricco

#10. I don't want it all to be pretty - it's a combination of loss and gain. Things are born, live and hang in limbo. That's what life's about ...

Cornelia Parker

#11. Jacqueline and Jillian, who were crying for some of the many reasons that babies cry - they were cold, they were distressed, they were offended by the existence of gravity - continued to wail.

Seanan McGuire

#12. Out of the east on an Irish stallion came bounty hunter Dan His heart quickened and burdened by the need to get his man He found Pete peacefully fishing by the river, pulled his gun and got the drop He said, Pete, you think you've changed, but you have not.

Bruce Springsteen

#13. Nathaniel closes his eyes and jumps, his arms glued to his sides like that fly's. He doesn't try to break his fall, just hits hard, because it hurts less than everything else.

Jodi Picoult