Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

If there is no gardener there is no garden.

Stephen Covey

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• I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Peace
  • Garden
  • Movement

• Corruption is when a politician uses public funds to deliver pistachio ice cream to his home and transfer garden furniture to his Caesarea villa, then requesting that the expenses be covered for the water in his pool and fights to get a private jet.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Home
  • Water
  • Garden

• So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.

  

  Samuel Foote
  • Time
  • Garden
  • Married

• I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • People
  • Never
  • Garden

• I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one – only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs.

  

  Karel Capek
  • People
  • Live
  • House

• Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Work
  • Garden
  • Plant

• Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Garden

• For me the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Different
  • True
  • Beautiful

• A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Animal
  • Garden

• Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.

  

  Beatrix Potter
  • Father
  • Garden

• Cabbage, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Wise
  • Garden
  • Kitchen

• I go forth to seek - To seek and claim the lovely magic garden Where grasses softly sigh and Muses speak.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Magic
  • Garden

• If you don't drink 56 bottles of water a week, scientists say you should take a garden hose at the end of the week and shove it up your ass.

  

  Lewis Black
  • Up
  • Water
  • Garden

• And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Cool
  • Garden
  • Winter

• I'm not much of a Rick Moody fan, but I want to be a fan for the Rick Moody I thought might appear after his first two novels, 'Garden State' (1992) and 'The Ice Storm' (1994).

  

  Alexander Chee
  • Garden
  • Storm

• I hate going anywhere. I'm really excited to travel and play all these different places, but if I had it my way, I would stay inside, maybe go to the back garden or walk around the corner to the shops. That's it.

  

  Courtney Barnett
  • Different
  • Hate
  • Travel

• I support Alice Waters in her desire that there be a vegetable garden at the White House. I don't think they should rip up the Rose Garden, because that's something that I love. They should probably dig up another patch and grow some vegetables there.

  

  Martha Stewart
  • Up
  • House
  • Support

• In Berkeley, we built the garden and a kitchen classroom. We've been working on it for 12 years. We've learned a lot from it. If kids grow it and cook it, they eat it.

  

  Alice Waters
  • Kids
  • Garden
  • Kitchen

• People still make New Year's resolutions? Wow. I figured those were pointless once I perfected myself by directing, writing, and acting in Garden State. I guess it makes sense, though. It gives people a chance to hope that they can become as great as me someday.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• Europe by the end of this century will be a continent after the neutron bomb. The grand buildings will still be standing, but the people who built them will be gone.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • People

• Lo que dicen las palabras no dura. Duran las palabres. Porque las palabras son siempre las mismas y lo que dicen no es nunca lo mismo.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Son

• I think perfect dates involve walking a lot, and not a bunch of driving around in cars. Ideally, you can walk together and go to a restaurant, and then walk from there to another nice place - this is, I guess, because of really great dates that I've had with my wife here in Portland.

  

  James Mercer Broken Bells
  • Great
  • Together
  • Perfect

• Men are very apt to run into extremes, hatred to England may carry come into an excess of Confidence in France... I am heartily disposed to entertain the most favourable sentiments of our new ally and to cherish them in others to a reasonable degree; but it is a maxim founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • History
  • Running

• If there is no gardener there is no garden.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Garden
  • Gardener