Quotable – serie

This delightful collection of wisdom, insight and humour, from Diane Ackerman to Emile Zola, captures the essence of the world's most popular hobby. Here are over four hundred quotations - not only one-line zingers but stanzas of verse and full paragraphs of narrative - on the endless fascination of gardening. The great gardening writers of past and present are amply represented, but these varied selections also range the entirety of recorded literature, from the Bible and the tenth-century Japanese diarist Sei Shonagon through Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dickens, Walt Whitman, and even Prince Charles. For anyone who counts their hours in the soil as their most valued, The Quotable Gardener is the ideal gift - an invaluable inspiration during the gardening months, and a treasured companion during the long, desperate winter.

"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother."--Oprah Winfrey"Every minute in the presence of a child takes seven minutes off your life."--Barbara Kingsolver"In the end, it's not what you do for your children, but what you've taught them to do for themselves."--Ann Landers"The more people have studied the different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all."--Benjamin SpockContributors include:Oprah WinfreyEdith WhartonEleanor RooseveltDiana, Princess of WalesWilliam BlakeBarbara KingsolverAgatha ChristieBarbara WaltersBenjamin SpockHarriet Beecher StoweBette DavisHarry S. TrumanAnna QuindlenMark TwainBeatrix PotterPablo PicassoAnn LandersDr. Joyce Brothers William ShakespeareJacqueline Kennedy Onassis

"When your horse has reached his potential, leave it. It's such a nice feeling when you and your horses are still friends." --Dr. Reiner Klimke, Olympic dressage gold medalist for Germany "My experiences with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame..." --Mark Twain"There is something about riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like something, even when you ain't a thing." --Will Rogers Horses bring out the best in our kind; they inspire adoration and compassion. They act as both muse and catharsis for artists and writers of all centuries and genres. In the works of Homer, Aesop, Steinbeck, and Yeats, and in sources that range from the Bible and Dante's Inferno to West with the Night references to horses abound. For such show-business personalities as Mr. Ed and Henny Youngman, horses are wonderful fodder. And politics, too, is rife with analogies to the horse, from the words of Winston Churchill to Governor Earl Long. With quotes from:Dave Barry Napoleon BonaparteLewis CarrollGeoffrey ChaucerCharles DickensEmily DickinsonWalter FarleyW. C. FieldsIan FlemingBenjamin FranklinSamuel JohnsonNikita KhrushchevRudyard KiplingGroucho MarxThomas McGuaneHerman MelvillePlatoDamon RunyonJ. D. SalingerWilliam ShakespeareJonathan SwiftAlfred, Lord TennysonMark TwainVirgil THE QUOTABLE HORSE LOVER is the perfect gift for all those who are crazy about these blessed beasts.

"The book provides familiar and not-so-familiar sayings that capture the chaos, challenges, and sacrifices of war."--Army magazineThe Quotable Soldier is a rich and balanced collection of the best quotations about war and those who go to war. From Thucydides to General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, here are the reasons men go to war, the challenge of human courage, the strategy of great battles and campaigns, the horrors of war, and much more. The Quotable Soldier includes comments about the battles of ancient times, through the Napoleonic and World Wars, and on into the complicated conflicts of Korea, Vietnam, and Desert Storm. This is one of the most compelling, challenging, and comprehensive collections of quotes about war and soldiering ever assembled.The perfect gift for any soldier, veteran, or war buff, The Quotable Soldier is a compulsively readable collection of some of the most illuminating observations ever made about war.

If teaching is an art form, then students are the canvas. A passionate teacher has the power to change lives, and in turn, help shape tomorrow’s world. With reflections from notables including Aesop, Woody Allen, Maya Angelou, Bill Clinton, Bill Cosby, Helen Keller, Langston Hughes, and John F. Kennedy, these inspirational and informative words of wisdom discuss everything from the importance of teaching and learning to dealing with discipline and classroom management.

The wisdom and humor of the world’s most outspoken women. A perfect compendium for the woman who has everything, except the perfect last word. Just in time for stocking stuffers!“Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous, outspoken, and inconveniently willful? ‘Keep her,’ I replied.”—Anna Quindlen“Men make angry music and it’s called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they’re angry and militant.”—Ani DiFranco