Celia Thaxter (Celia Laighton Thaxter) Quotes
Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.
Celia Thaxter
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Seek to understand the root. - It is futile to argue as to which single leaf, which design of branch, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.
Bruce Lee
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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. … I cannot tell if I would have done any creative work of importance in music, but I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin.
Albert Einstein
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The very best hotel I've stayed in is the Intercontinental on Park Lane. We went there for the Chelsea Flower Show a few years ago, and it was sheer luxury. Everybody had a smile on their face. I came home and changed all my pillows because the hotel ones were so beautiful.
Mary Berry
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty,Grows cold even in the summer of her age.
John Dryden
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The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about to put her clothes back on.
Odilon Redon
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And it became even more interesting when we realized that we were visiting the same six or seven work centers every time. They’re not bottlenecks, but the sequence in which they perform their jobs became very important. We call them ‘capacity constraint resources,’ CCR for short.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
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I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time.
Lalu Prasad Yadav
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Hang your merit. I don't seek anyone's approbation.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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When I was in my early twenties I was doing tenant organizing - rent strikes, specifically - in my building. I think that was how I started doing poster art. It was something very concrete.
Eric Drooker
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Like the musician, the painter, the poet and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made.
Celia Thaxter
