Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
“A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.”
“I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin.”