H. E. Bates Quotes

A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.

O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain.

Gardens... should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves.

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.

No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.

Surely the world we live in is but the world that lives in us.

Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.

From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.

The garden that is finished is dead.

Adversity is the true school of the mind.

In America, every female under fifty calls herself a girl.

A garden should be in a constant state of fluid change, expansion, experiment, adventure; above all it should be an inquisitive, loving, but self-critical journey on the part of its owner.

The true gardener, like an artist, is never satisfied.

I went from years of honing my craft to sudden recognition. It was quite a life changer.

It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.

In the 21st Century, I'd like to think women have the right to live lives free of both sexual violence and daily harassment, as well as any other form of inequality.

Some day Love shall claim his own Some day Right ascend his throne, Some day hidden Truth be known; Some day - some sweet day.

I haven't talked much about being an ovarian cancer survivor because I don't really want to define myself that way.

My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.

If you can convince me that we are one in this sense, that you are my father, and I your son; and also that I am your father, and you my son, then I can believe in the trinity.

America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shinning sea!

I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the human heart and mind.

The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.

The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most important branches of Biological science.

For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.

I'm a horror movie fan to begin with, so to come back to the genre, I feel like horror has been very good to me.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

America! America! God shed His grace on thee.

I see my sisters, my mother, my grandmother. I like the way I look. I think I have a nice face. I like my eyes, my mouth. I have a good nose. I have good skin.

If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves.

We have to name a problem to solve a problem.

I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.

The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.

The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.

In order to achieve that end goal of equality it is a very gendered oppression primarily affecting women that needs to be tackled.

Cruel and cold is the judgment of man, Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow; But by-and-by will the deed and the plan Be judged by the motive that lieth below.

The idea that men 'lose control' around a woman in a short skirt is insulting to men, completely relieves perpetrators of responsibility, and erases and ignores male victims.

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

I have always had a problem with my weight.

A compliment makes someone feel good about themselves. A catcall is harassment.

We all love to hear a good story. We save our stories in books. We save our books in libraries. Libraries are the storyhouses full of all those stories and secrets.

I get to my feet when Chelsea fans sing 'Stand up if you hate Man U'. But though I hate them, I have to admire them too.

The joy late coming late departs.

When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty.

I can sit here on the couch and hear you say, "You're very feminine and very attractive," but I have always struggled with that.

Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.

The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb; But God's time is our harvest time, And that is sure to come.

Unfortunately much of it is frittered away on fast cars, designer clothes and an attitude to pleasure reminiscent of the 18-30 holiday packages.

Every club has three types: fans, parasites and people who work their bollocks off, even ladies.