Rudyard Kipling Quotes

Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing 'Oh how wonderful' and sitting in the shade, While better men than we go out, and start their working lives By grubbing weeds from garden paths with broken dinner knives.

Rudyard Kipling

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• Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Past
  • Democracy
  • Mistakes

• The unlikely combination of potatoes and pasta does appear in some Italian recipes.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Italian
  • Combination
  • Potatoes

• Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Love
  • Relate

• Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Unique
  • Hard
  • Come

• 'Srimanthudu' was very important for me and my career at that time, so I was tensed. But for 'Brahmotsavam,' honestly speaking, I am more excited because of its content. I have attempted something new, and I am keen to see how the audience receives it.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Time
  • Important
  • Career

• Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as king.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Jesus
  • King
  • Sound

• Quirky is what a guy would call a girl he doesn't understand.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Guy
  • Girl
  • Understand

• A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
  • Woman
  • Laugh
  • Tongue

• I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Want
  • Acting
  • Act

• First drafts are never any good - at least, mine aren't.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Good
  • Never
  • First

• Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Science
  • Language
  • Feel

• Look, maybe I'm just not good at multi-tasking and am, therefore, jealous of those of you who can get in a workout while yammering on your cell phone, but for the love of all that is good and pure, shut your yap!

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Good
  • Jealous
  • Pure

• I'm a big Stephen King fan.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • King
  • Big
  • Stephen King

• In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Change
  • Successful
  • Process

• I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • People
  • You
  • Stage

• When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Remember
  • Logic

• My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • She
  • Father
  • Me

• Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Soul
  • You
  • Insults

• My brush-strokes start in nothing and they end in nothing, and in-between you find the image.

  

  Karel Appel
  • Nothing
  • Image
  • Strokes

• We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.

  

  Bram Stoker
  • Experiences
  • Ways
  • England

• The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden of Eden were ordained by God and were a necessary part of their-and our-earthly experience. President Howard W. Hunter, then a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, taught: "We came to mortal life to encounter resistance. It was part of the plan for our eternal progress. Without temptation, sickness, pain, and sorrow, there could be no goodness, virtue, appreciation for well-being, or joy."

  

  Daniel K Judd
  • Writing
  • Pain
  • Joy

• President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Government
  • Promise

• Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing 'Oh how wonderful' and sitting in the shade, While better men than we go out, and start their working lives By grubbing weeds from garden paths with broken dinner knives.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Working
  • Garden
  • England