Celia Thaxter (Celia Laighton Thaxter) Quotes
As I work among my flowers, I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with them, and adoring them as if they were human beings. Much laughter I provoke among my friends by so doing, but that is of no consequence. We are on such good terms, my flowers and I.
Celia Thaxter
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Our home in Louisville, Kentucky, where I was born on December 20, was one of great happiness.
Irene Dunne
Before the phantom of False morning died, Methought a Voice within the Tavern cried, 'When all the Temple is prepared within, Why nods the drowsy Worshipper outside?'
Omar Khayyam
For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.
Aristotle
I was finding it very difficult to find a label that understood what I wanted to do and really believed that people wanted to hear something honest and a little bit different. So, I did feel a bit like a clown. You're knocking on everyone's door trying to get them to believe what you're doing.
Emeli Sande
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Martha Graham
I always sort of liked Mesa/Boogies, but I wasn't sure if they were cool or not cool.
Kurt Vile
There is a great correlation between music and images.
Graham Nash
Let the flower of compassion blossom in the rich soil of maître, and water it with the good water of equanimity in the cool, refreshing shade of joy.
Longchenpa
In the course of the history of the earth innumerable events have occurred one after another, causing changes of states, all with certain lasting consequences. This is the basis of our developmental law, which, in a nutshell, claims that the diversity of phenomena is a necessary consequence of the accumulation of the results of all individual occurrences happening one after another... The current state of the earth, thus, constitutes the as yet most diverse final result, which of course represents not a real but only a momentary end-point.
Bernhard von Cotta
When I was young, all I wanted to be was a movie star. At a certain point, I started to grow up and really care about what I did.
Sharon Stone
As I work among my flowers, I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with them, and adoring them as if they were human beings. Much laughter I provoke among my friends by so doing, but that is of no consequence. We are on such good terms, my flowers and I.
Celia Thaxter
