Edwin Lutyens Quotes

A garden scheme should have a backbone - a central idea beautifully phrased.

Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural and very human instincts.

I think the glue that held 'Fringe' together was the relationships.

Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.

Love is the bond of perfection.

I think family is key, and if you have love for family, then you have love for others - and you have unity as a people.

We can either grow together or grow apart. At the moment we are growing apart.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

I always focus on team building - both in office and at home.

Tactics are so important because everybody has to know what they have to do on the pitch. The relationships and behaviours off the pitch between team-mates have to be as good as possible.

I just wanted to work, build a relationship with my teammates, and earn their trust.

Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off.

A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.

For among nations - as within nations - the soundest unity is that which respects diversity, and the strongest cohesion is that which rejects coercion.

Prosperity's the very bond of love.

Right now, holding you, I feel like we have a shot at beating all odds and making it together.

Michael: 'Hey, remember when I almost didn't let you into the house that first day you came?' Claire: 'Yep' Michael: 'Well, I was dead wrong. Maybe I never said that out loud before, but I mean it, Claire. All that's happened since... we wouldn't have made it. Not me, not Shane, not Eve. Not without you.' Claire: 'It's not me. It's not! It's us, that's all. We're just better together. We... take care of each other.' Shane: 'Stop vamping up my girl, man. She needs coffee.' Michael: 'Don't we all. Vamping up your girl? Dude. That's low.' Shane: 'Digging for China. Come on.

Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of all things to fulfill its own.

We do not need more division. We certainly do not need something as complex and emotional as Vietnam reduced to simple campaign rhetoric.

Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.

Pride is the great enemy of unity

if one of us falls, we all fall

Scilurus on his death-bed, being about to leave four-score sons surviving, offered a bundle of darts to each of them, and bade them break them. When all refused, drawing out one by one, he easily broke them, thus teaching them that if they held together, they would continue strong; but if they fell out and were divided, they would become weak.

I want to fight for what we got because I believe in family.