Quotes with torture-garden

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  • Francis Bacon God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Zoltan Kodaly Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime.
    Zoltan Kodaly
    Hungarian composer (1882 - 1967)
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  • Joseph Addison I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Barbara Mandrell In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food - for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • Luis Bunuel In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
    Luis Bunuel
    Spanish director (1900 - 1983)
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  • Bennet Omalu No, no, I don't watch football. The last time I tried watching was the last Super Bowl. The problem I have is, you know, the graphic nature of my imagination; when I watch and see them meeting head onto head, helmet onto helmet, what flashes through my mind is what's going on in their brains. It's like torture to me.
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • George Herbert A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Leo Buscaglia A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • Abraham Cowley Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Carl Hagelin As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where it's packed every night, there's nothing like it.
    Carl Hagelin
    Swedish ice hockey player (1988 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among the most accomplished at it.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Brad Garrett But I believe that there are marriages where you can have your pool table and she can have her scrapbooking room or garden or whatever it is. But when everyone has what they want, it's not funny. There's no conflict.
    Brad Garrett
    American stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor, and professional (1960 - )
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  • Gary Kasparov Chess is mental torture.
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  • Joseph Conrad Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Alfred de Vigny Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Beatrix Potter Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
    The Tale of Peter Rabbit
    Beatrix Potter
    English writer, illustrator and conservationist (1866 - 1943)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Matt Groening Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.
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  • T. S. Eliot Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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