Quotes of: Carver Keyword

These gardens may be called the gardens of the respectable working classes.

Robert Fortune

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Johann Georg Zimmermann

Good words cool more than cold water.

John Ray

You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.

Gilbert White

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

John Ray

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

Luther Burbank

In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.

Asa Gray

The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.

Libby Houston

I think if you have to pay for your education, you worry very seriously about you're going to do when you've got your degree.

James Dyson

Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized; in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education.

Simon van der Meer

The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, and for one, I wish to see it become universal.

Julius Sterling Morton

Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.

Leslie Fiedler

I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system.

Elon Musk

The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions.

Edward Forbes

Who knows but that England may revive in New South Wales when it has sunk in Europe.

Joseph Banks

A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see.

David Douglas

Janey Carver: Ben, you're boring me. I have a husband. I don't have a need for another one.

The Ice Storm

Zeus Carver: No riddle is gonna stop this motherfucker? Simon Gruber: No code, no riddle, no fancy little countdown.

Die Hard: With a Vengeance

Arnie: [In the middle of Mr. Carver's funeral] Gilbert, it's the Burger Barn! It's the Burger Barn, Gilbert, the Burger Barn!

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined.

Gilbert White

Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course.

Asa Gray