While I looked, my inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose; I had a sudden feeling as if I, who never yet truly lived, were at last about to taste life. In that morning my soul grew as fast as Jonah's gourd.
Quotes about gourd (8 Quotes)
I don't like to waste things. It's kind of recycled gourds. I'd rather do a big (gourd), it's more a feeling of accomplishment ... but people like (the pins) too.
He from forth the closet brought a heap Of candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd With jellies soother thank the creamy curd, And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon Mama and dates, in argosy transferrd From Fez and spiced dainties, every one, From silken Samarcand to cedard Lebanon.
The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.
Sugar in the gourd and honey in the horn, I was so happy since the hour I was born.
Seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run To bend with apples the mossd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has oer-brimmd their clammy cells.
I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
My kids used to tease me and say the neighbor kids probably called me 'the crazy gourd lady' because of the gourds taking over the place. It really was a funny sight.