I have this ability to find this hidden talent in people that sometimes even they didn't know they had.


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We have three and a half acres, complete with duck pond and wildflower meadow and open annually by a...
MARY BERRY
When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it...
WENDELL BERRY
When I started, you had cochineal food colouring that would turn things pink, but you could never ma...
MARY BERRY
All my grandchildren bake. On a Saturday, Annabel's boys, Louis and Toby, always bake. Louis mak...
MARY BERRY
That's the misconceptions that people have, that Chuck Berry went to jail. They're just tota...
CHUCK BERRY
Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
WENDELL BERRY
When our William was killed, there wasn't a child bereavement charity. I was extremely blessed w...
MARY BERRY
Charlie Christian played amplified guitar with Benny Goodman's quartet. He was the greatest guit...
CHUCK BERRY
I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.
HALLE BERRY
If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you...
CHUCK BERRY
I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step feari...
WENDELL BERRY
How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY
He imagines a necessary joy in things that must fly to eat.
WENDELL BERRY
Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the lan...
WENDELL BERRY
Making your Christmas cake in September is perfect, as too fresh a cake crumbles when cut.
MARY BERRY
When I was paralysed by polio at 13, I went into an isolation hospital and couldn't sit up, so I...
MARY BERRY
No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer...
DANIELLE BERRY
It's an opportunity for visitors themselves to take part in the effort to reduce accidents.
BRIAN BERRY
The case was shoddily conceived. And he lost it.
BRIAN BERRY
We had two goals going into tonight's game. We wanted to win the game and get nobody hurt. We accomp...
BRIAN BERRY
It's like 'Twilight Zone.' You're seeing the same pattern.
BRIAN BERRY
At first, I think people thought I was a bum or a damn nut, so they were leery of me. People are nic...
BOB BERRY
I was real satisfied with how we did going against the big schools. Most of our guys are newer at tr...
BOB BERRY
The cruise (phase) has been very successful.
BOB BERRY
For a while, there was nobody cutting ships. You couldn't do it because of all the environmental reg...
BOB BERRY
He was mighty tickled and was a good kid. But I had to give him a lecture on keeping a phone number ...
BOB BERRY
The team is trained and confident. The spacecraft systems are healthy and performing as expected, an...
BOB BERRY
I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days].
HALLE BERRY
My husband is not in the slightest bit domesticated, but as the years go, by he's getting better...
MARY BERRY
I never fry a doughnut! If you want a doughnut, go and buy one once in a blue moon. It's about e...
MARY BERRY
I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.
HALLE BERRY
At my dinner parties, I like to serve cheese after the main course because you still have red wine i...
MARY BERRY
I always had to diet. I'm diabetic, so it's a lifestyle for me anyway just to stay healthy a...
HALLE BERRY
My best holidays were in Devon and Cornwall when the children were growing up. We always used to sta...
MARY BERRY
Listening to Nat Cole prompted me to sing sentimental songs with distinct diction.
CHUCK BERRY
I added and deleted according to the audiences' response to different gestures, and chose songs ...
CHUCK BERRY
This has ripped the family. The parents they're devastated.
CATHY BERRY
This has ripped the family. The parents – they're devastated.
CATHY BERRY
I thought the girls played well, and we got off to a great start. We have a lot of returning players...
CATHY BERRY
I thought Emily played fantastic, and she really held her own. She definitely stepped it up, when sh...
CATHY BERRY
You're life still goes one whether you want it to or not, you still have daily bills that come in.
CATHY BERRY
It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
CHUCK BERRY
Whose noble praise Deserves a quill pluckt from an angel's wing.
DOROTHY BERRY
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
JOHN BERRY