#hr

The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#black #bulbs #clay #cover #death

The Giants are usually described as rag tag, kind of a great garage sale team, and the Democrats are described as the Mommies to the Republican Daddies; and everyone hates the mommies, but wait, wait - I didn't intend to get into the pathos and thrill of being a Democratic Giants fan. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#democratic #democrats #described #everyone #fan

I listen to everything that comes in. I'm not real worried about demo sound quality. I can hear through that sort of thing. If a band can play, then they can play. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#band #comes #demo #everything #hear

A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#become #christian #delayed #efforts #every

The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#bad #complaint #department #difficulty #education

If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps. ↗

— Edwin Land

#anything #conflicts #distractions #doing #dream

I think the people at my record label know I'm a Christian and again, I've been really blessed that I've never had to get into a head-butt war over moral standards or anything like that. ↗

— Jonny Lang

#anything #been #blessed #christian #get

Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#apply #comes #emotional #existence #experience

The main concept is that of an international solidarity expressed in practice through worldwide division of labor: free trade is the principal point in the program of internationalism. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#division #expressed #free #free trade #international

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. ↗

— Sidney Lanier

#acquired #endeavor #rests #through #upon