Hyde Quotes

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness.

The man who worries morning and night about the dandelions in the lawn will find great relief in loving the dandelions.

My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?

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.

This is a debate about our understanding of human dignity, what it means to be a member of the human family, even though tiny, powerless and unwanted

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.

But neither money nor machines can create. They shuttle tokens of energy, but they do not transform. A civilization based on them puts people out of touch with their creative powers.

Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingredients. You can start with the world you've got.

I always think extremism is basically a reaction out of fear. What we seem to be experiencing is polar extremism that keeps people from coming together.

Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage.

An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation

A gift that cannot be given away ceases to be a gift. The spirit of a gift is kept alive by its constant donation.

The happiest life has the greatest number of points of contact with the world, and it has the deepest feeling and sympathy with everything that is.

Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful and unsociable as thunder and lightning, being in themselves all storm and tempest; but quiet and easy natures are like fair weather, welcome to all.

One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in the winds and rains, in birds and insects, in the warm-smelling earth.

The law exists to protect the weak from the strong.

There are so many women on the floor of Congress, it looks like a mall

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

When we are moved by art we are grateful that the artist lived, grateful that he labored in the service of his gifts.

The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth, and parts not with it but for the full value.

You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

We are only alive to the degree that we can let ourselves be moved.

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.

Every craggy and gnarled tree has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

There is great satisfaction in a well-made clean tool that does its work well.

Uncovering secrets is apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means ‘an uncovering’). In this case, it lifts the shame covers. It allows articulation to enter where silence once ruled.

The gift finds the man attractive who stands with an empty bowl he does not own.

True citizens are not the audience of their government, nor its consumers; they are its makers.

I think of a myth as a story that helps you explain all the different pieces of your life. In that broad sense, there is no way to live without mythology.

We forgive when we give up attachment to our wounds.

The biggest challenge in life is for the two hearts to live in peaceful co-existence

I was never happy, I was just less pissed off.

Don't try to blame the pain on anyone. Blaming others won't erase the pain.

Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him.

I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried

An anaesthetic is a poet-killer.

As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power.

Suffice it to say Cherie Snodgrass and I were good friends a long, long time ago. After Mr Snodgrass confronted my wife, the friendship ended and my marriage remained intact.

We are going to follow wherever the facts lead us.

If you feel you can't trust anyone, then try trusting in yourself.

If it takes you apart, that's not love. Love puts you back together.

No man is so insignificant as to be sure his example can do no hurt.

Is there any progress in horticulture? If not, it is dead, uninspiring. We cannot live in the past good as it is; we must draw our inspiration from the future.

Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.