Sayings & Quotes

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"The more one gardens the more one learns and the more one learns the more one realises how little one knows. I suppose the whole of life is like that: the endless complications, the endless difficulties, the endless fight against one thing or another, whether it be green-fly on the roses or the complexity of personal relationships."
Vita Sackville-West

'You never appreciate all the things your mother did for you until you find yourself doing the same things for your kids.'
Linda Poindexter


"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up."
Arthur Koestler

ÔÇ£If women took up arms to defend their reproductive rights, the GOP would ban assault rifles yesterday.ÔÇØ
Steve Marmel


ÔÇ£Yes, Dr. King is pro-gun just as surely as Jesus would be pro-nails.ÔÇØ
Stephen Colbert, after the organizer of Gun Appreciation Day said the day honours the legacy of Martin Luther King


"I have come to the conclusion that executions solve nothing, and are only an antiquated relic of a primitive desire for revenge which takes the easy way and hands over the responsibility for revenge to other people ."
Albert Pierrepoint



ÔÇ£The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place is a retarded way to run a species.ÔÇØ
Warren Ellis


ÔÇ£NASA spent millions of dollars inventing the ball-point pen so they could write in space. The Russians took a pencil.ÔÇØ
Will Chabot


ÔÇ£A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being?ÔÇØ
Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

ÔÇ£Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.ÔÇØ
Carl Sagan