Hands tremulous as cherry blossoms kept Faith with struggling seedlings till the earth Kept faith with him, claimed him as he slept Cold in the sun beside his upright spade.
Hands tremulous as cherry blossoms kept Faith with struggling seedlings till the earth Kept faith with him, claimed him as he slept Cold in the sun beside his upright spade.
So deeply is the gardener's instinct implanted in my soul, I really love the tools with which I work the iron fork, the spade, the hoe, the rake, the trowel, and the watering pot are pleasant objects in my eyes.
Cecily When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.
It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.
A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust.
Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel.
I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome always we are invited to work only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action. An Oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837.
The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. . . . The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
After everything happened, we all got super tight. I can't deny it. We all just love each other. James Garner and David Spade came on and we fell in love with them too. We've just become a family all over again. We don't want to lose anyone again.
One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds.
If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so, I think, when we commit a fault, however small, each day, and do not cure ourselves of it.
Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and gravemakers they hold up Adam's profession.
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