Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
We're half an hour from Toronto, which offers everything you could want from a city, and a couple of hours from beautiful… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
In my younger days, when I was painted by the half-educated, loose and inaccurate ways women had, I used to say, "How… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
I didn't finish high school - left home when I was 15. I moved away to Fresno and worked as a grocery… — Joy Covey Copy Share Image
I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more… — David Tang Copy Share Image
Resisting and avoiding pain sucks energy-and time. The more you let yourself feel those minute-and-a-half hells, the quicker you'll start feeling those… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Ali had a break that was an inch and a half long, and you keep getting hit as hard and as much… — Ken Norton Copy Share Image
I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
I did plays in college, and I have half of a play. But I'm kind of stuck. I keep revisiting it so… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
The neighbourhood is a place of...intrigue and emotional espionage, where when two people stop to talk on the street their tongues are… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
[The Utopia of Rules] should offer a challenge to us all. Should we just accept this bureaucracy as inevitable? Or is there… — Gillian Tett Copy Share Image
I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Half-instructed confessors have done my soul great harm; for I could not always have such learned ones as I would have desired.… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
When you stand for something, you've got to stand for it all the way, not half way. — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of… — Vanilla Ice Copy Share Image