#ant

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#attention #because #effort #expended #fulfill

I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#come #creep #entranced #everywhere #float

It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven't done anything really significant since Doctor Who. ↗

— Colin Baker

#because #doctor #done #haven #i

Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#dealing #detail #discuss #end #excessive

To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison. ↗

— Jim Bakker

#difficult #difficult thing #get #i #inside

If you want to control other people, first control yourself. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#first #other #people #want #you

John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university. ↗

— Russell Banks

#anti-war #brown #chapel #chapel hill #civil

All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives. ↗

— Ralph Bakshi

#companies #draw #executives #great #guys

Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards. ↗

— Ralph Bakshi

#american kids #fantasy #had #homage #i

Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn't know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on. ↗

— Bob Balaban

#began #early #exaggerating #exciting #fact