William Cowper Quotes

Even in the stifling bosom of the town, A garden, in which nothing thrives, has charms That soothes the rich possessor; much consol'd, That here and there some sprigs of mournful mint, Or nightshade, or valerian, grace the well He cultivates.

William Cowper

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• Students graduating with high debt encounter difficulties in qualifying for home and automobile loans.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • Home
  • High
  • Students

• You can spend an entire day walking around in New York, whereas in L.A., it always ends at some point because you have to find a way to get home.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Home
  • Day
  • Walking

• By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Home
  • Illness
  • Cure

• The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Process
  • Adventure
  • Miracle

• My father is an amazing person. While he was a huge star, he never carried his stardom home and always remained simple and just our father at home. I have four siblings, and we were all very grounded. We lived a very simple life: would go in an auto rickshaw to school, played with normal boys.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Life
  • School
  • Home

• Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.

  

  Lance Morrow
  • Home
  • You
  • Hat

• Canada is rich in hydrocarbons and other natural resources... India's requirements and Canada's surplus are a perfect match.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Perfect
  • Rich
  • Canada

• There's more to me, you know? I'm not Macaulay Culkin, 'Home Alone' kid. I'm Macaulay Culkin... actor.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Home
  • Me
  • Alone

• Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Religion
  • West
  • South

• Anyone who has been to India - specifically Rajasthan, the rich and kingly region in the country's northwest - knows that when it comes to adornment, Indians do not think like other people.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Country
  • Think

• It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Rich
  • More
  • Writer

• Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • People
  • Government
  • Rich

• Granny beads are what they're called when a grandma works the garden all day - you always see them - they have a handkerchief around their neck with a lot of dust on them, and then the sweat will go down and make these black beads of sweat and dirt around their neck. And that's what they call granny beads.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Black
  • Day
  • Garden

• I'm just glad my gold medal's at home, because I'd hate to try to win another.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Home
  • Hate
  • Win

• Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Home
  • Language

• When I go home, all I wanna do is just sleep and eat.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Home
  • Sleep
  • Eat

• When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... just a self-deprecating kind of guy. He'd come home from work, and the wife would maybe say 'I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway'. And he would say 'Fine, what's for dinner?

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Work
  • Children
  • Home

• I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Home
  • Feel
  • India

• My experience with 'Last Resort' is very different from most of the cast. While they are next to a mountain, I'm always within the four walls of my home.

  

  Jessy Schram
  • Different
  • Home
  • Experience

• Figuring out how to eat healthfully on your own without your parents' guidance is one of the hardest lessons you must learn when you leave home for college.

  

  Daphne Oz
  • Home
  • Parents
  • College

• This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Home
  • Proud

• I had a weird dream the other night that I was on 'Jersey Shore.'

  

  Chloe Sevigny
  • Dream
  • Night
  • Weird

• The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.

  

  Richard Paul Evans
  • Really
  • Happen
  • Novelist

• Even in the stifling bosom of the town, A garden, in which nothing thrives, has charms That soothes the rich possessor; much consol'd, That here and there some sprigs of mournful mint, Or nightshade, or valerian, grace the well He cultivates.

  

  William Cowper
  • Home
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  • Rich