Naomi Wilkinson Quotes
I find a great deal of contentment in simply sitting in my garden and watching the birds that come to visit. I am a passionate birdwatcher and as we live near some woodland, we are spoilt with the variety of species that pass through.
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You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.
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It's definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going over to people's houses and watching play me as I walk in – that's actually happened a few times and that's so weird. It's like, 'Dude, you're playing me right now.' It was too weird.
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Planning a garden, park, building, or city shouldn't be done in an office.
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Like many other kids, I liked watching anime.
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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.
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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.
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I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.
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There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
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I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.
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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.
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I can't stand watching myself on TV.
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Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
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In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you.
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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
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Blessed sister, holy mother, spirit of the fountain, spirit of the garden, Suffer us not to mock ourselves with falsehood Teach us to care and not to care
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Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
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Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it.
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I have a very nice garden and extraordinary markets, where there are products from the earth and the sea, in the French Basque country.
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Who wants an orange whip? Orange whip? Orange whip? Three orange whips.
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And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved.
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There are some things that a woman knows that she cannot tell even her family. It is part intuition and part self-preservation.
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We need just two players to be a contender. Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.
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I find a great deal of contentment in simply sitting in my garden and watching the birds that come to visit. I am a passionate birdwatcher and as we live near some woodland, we are spoilt with the variety of species that pass through.
