The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes fallow garden live
I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out of college. The next thing you know I'm writing for the 'New Yorker,' I have this sort of life, and it must seem annoying to people. Jamaica Kincaid annoycollegecredential share on social
I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to take. They are inevitably looking for a happy ending. Jamaica Kincaid americandifficultyend Change image and share on social
I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book. Jamaica Kincaid bookdictionaryread Change image and share on social
I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.' John Paul DeJoria backbrothercent share on social
It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. Lewis Thomas antbeastbegin share on social
Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients. Cheech Marin fallowfieldgain Change image and share on social