Vita Sackville-West Quotes
Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers.
Quotes to Explore
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I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
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The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
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A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame.
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Women are amazing lovers.
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I don't do ski racing to be famous.
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I train for around 3-4 hours everyday. It can go up to 6-7 hours when a competition is approaching.
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We didn't have rest days or weekends because we had to get ready as fast as possible, so we could beat the Americans, who were also racing to send a woman into space.
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The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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The excitement of automobile racing did not compare with what I knew must come with aeroplane fighting in France.
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I would have probably stolen cars – it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.
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I die wearing a bootie for three hours. I'm like, get these off of me!
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The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
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I'm working over 80 hours a week and have to keep on track.
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It's time we put thoughts of lack behind us. It's time for us to discover the secrets of the stars, to sail to an uncharted land, to open up a new heaven where our spirits can soar. But first we'll have to make changes. And lasting change does not happen overnight. Lasting change happens in infinitesimal increments: a day, an hour, a minute, a heartbeat at a time...
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In my family, if I talk back to my dad, I get in trouble.
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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
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He says-him as was here just now-'When Tom shut up the house, mate, to go to rack, the beds was left, all made, like as if somebody was a-going to sleep in every bed. And if you was to walk through the bedrooms now, you'd see the ragged mouldy bedclothes a heaving and a heaving like seas. And a heaving and a heaving with what?' he says. 'Why, with the rats under 'em.'
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Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers.
