#themselves

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. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#garden #give #good #grow #less

The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#doubting #made #morons #most #natural

A lot of people that embark on spiritual endeavors tended to, especially in the '60s and '70s, they tended to give up what they had before and cut themselves off from their lives, previous life as it were. But, I don't think that one should do that. ↗

— Dave Davies

#cut #embark #endeavors #especially #give

I think if you have a really big, heavy person, there's a feeling of an invisible puppeteer jerking them around in space. They don't feel like they are moving themselves. ↗

— Brad Bird

#big #feel #feeling #heavy #i

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else. ↗

— Bette Davis

#because #become #dislike #else #often

When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#into #just #like #make #men

A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law. ↗

— Evan Davis

#academia #bench #chair #chairs #describe

The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#always #been #customers #developers #important

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

#also #children #educate #educated #left

It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves. ↗

— Bjork

#females #how #incredible #nature #people