Luther Burbank Quotes

There is not a single desirable attribute which, lacking in a plant, may not be bred into it. Choose what improvement you wish in a flower, a fruit, or a tree, and by crossing, selection, cultivation, and persistence you can fix this desirable trait irrevocably.

Luther Burbank

Quotes to Explore

Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.

Patrick Kavanagh
- Women
- Song
- Imagination
I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.

Earl Scruggs
- Attention
- Enjoy
- Pay
I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.

Rachel Kushner
- Like
- Him
- Often
There's been a couple of guys who have gotten me. I used to say Adrian Gonzalez. He's a good lefty hitter; he's hit a few home runs off of me. They were a couple of mistakes, so if you make your pitches, you're more likely to have a better outcome.

Jacob deGrom
- Good
- Home
- Couple
I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.

Ira Sachs
- School
- Film
- Student
But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.

Samuel Alexander
- Real
- Action
- Value