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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Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address for Universal Pictures or MGM or whatever. I'd write to the studios asking them if I could be in a movie. They never wrote me back.
Garrett Hedlund
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
Madame de Stael
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
I usually kept everybody at arm's distance.
Charles Haley
My passion for music is one of my greatest loves.
Naya Rivera
Observe that open loves are held to be more honourable than secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest, even if their persons are less beautiful than others, is especially honourable.
Plato
I've discovered that in order to make big changes in the world, we have to begin at home - within ourselves.
Ann M. Martin
The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism'... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition.
John Gresham Machen
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
