Short Day Plant

Famous quotes containing the words short, day and/or plant:

“It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

“On the first day of a revolution he is a treasure; on the second he ought to be shot.”
—Anonymous. Quoted in Benét’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, third edition (1987)

“The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant. We cannot train children along chicken wire to make them grow in the right direction. Tying them to stakes is frowned upon, even in Massachusetts.”
—Ellen Goodman (b. 1941)