Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hilarie Burton

Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails.

Hilary Mantel

I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden?

Henry Ward Beecher

What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent fresh from heaven to earth, of purity and beauty.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.

My garden will never make me famous, I'm a horticultural ignoramus.

Oscar de la Renta

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

Orson Welles

One should make movies innocently - the way Adam and Eve named the animals, their first day in the garden...Learn from your own interior vision of things, as if there had never been a D.W.Griffith, or a Eisenstein, or a [John] Ford, or a [Jean] Renoir, or anybody.

Orison Swett Marden

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.

Mason Cooley

Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.

Mason Cooley

Full of troubles, the mind is still the only Garden of Delight.

Mary Astell

How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.

Michel Gondry

I always wanted to create this community that would come and tell their own story, shoot it - and watch them. The idea is to not have one entity who creates the work, the project, and another entity who consumes it; the idea is people create their own work, like somebody cultivating his garden.

Martha Stewart

I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening.

Martha Stewart

Gardening is a humbling experience.

Mark Ruffalo

I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.

Marie Curie

More and more, I feel the need for a house and a garden.

Malcolm Wallop

If government ownership of land and natural resources was the best way to protect the environment, then we should have found a Garden of Eden in the Soviet Union after the Iron Curtain came down. Instead, there was one environmental horror story after another.

Louise Hay

Your thoughts are like the seeds you plant in your garden. Your beliefs are like the soil in which you plant these seeds.

Joe Frazier

Joe Frazier's life didn't start with Ali. I was a Golden Gloves champ. Gold medal in Tokyo '64. Heavyweight champion of the world long before I fought Ali in the Garden.

Emma Watson

I don't know anything about American history or presidents. I don't know what tailgating is! I've never been to an Olive Garden!

Michelle Obama

Gardening has increased, community gardens have increased significantly. There are 50 percent more community gardens right here in Washington DC.

Michael Pollan

Ripe vegetables were magic to me. Unharvested, the garden bristled with possibility. I would quicken at the sight of a ripe tomato, sounding its redness from deep amidst the undifferentiated green. To lift a bean plant's hood of heartshaped leaves and discover a clutch of long slender pods handing underneath could make me catch my breath.

Michael Pollan

A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.

Michael Pollan

Nature abhors a garden.

Michael Pollan

Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.

Michael Pollan

It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.

Michael Pollan

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.

Sherman Alexie

A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.

Neil Gaiman

Walk any path in Destiny's garden, and you will be forced to choose, not once but many times.

John Muir

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature's darlings.