Quotes of: Stevenson Keyword

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

Zora Neale Hurston

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.

Faith Baldwin

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

George Herbert

Marriage equality is coming, and not merely to a theater near you.

Suzanne Brockmann

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.

Taylor Caldwell

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

E. W. Howe

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

Alfred Austin

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

Alice Walker

The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.

W. H. Davies

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

Joe E. Lewis

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Anton Chekhov

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Mark Twain

Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.

James Merrill

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Mark Twain

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Mark Twain

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

Pablo Neruda

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.

Elvis Presley

It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.

Howard Rheingold

Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

Anton Chekhov