Quotes about garden
garden night waiting
The certainty that she would find what it was she sought just slipped away, until one night she knew there was nothing, no one waiting for her. That no matter how far she walked, how carefully she searched, how much she wanted to find the person she was looking for, she was alone" - The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton
garden hands earth
It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season. Kate Morton
garden people littles
Plants are like people: they're all different and a little bit strange. John Kehoe
garden sky listening
The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft; and gathering swallows twitter in the skies. John Keats
garden cities government
When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden. Livy
garden land pieces
The best fertilizer for a piece of land is the footprints of its owner. Lyndon B. Johnson
garden laughing path
They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh! Louise Jameson
garden rivers lakes
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. Loren Eiseley
garden bird wire
The movements of some more little red birds in the garden, like animated rosebuds, appeared unbearably jittery and thievish. It was as though the creatures were attached by sensitive wires to his nerves. Malcolm Lowry
garden scratches chickens
One legged chickens, I know, are the least apt to scratch a garden. Josh Billings
garden eden yankees
Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in, and he would see where he could alter it to advantage; put an Irishman in, and he would want to boss the thing; put a Dutchman in, and he would proceed to plant it. Josh Billings
garden bears would-be
Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible; without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden. Ouida
garden house world
Beauty is what I feel my life is about - the garden, the house, whatever. I see the world that way, yet it isn't. Julie Newmar
garden needs helping
It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle? Julian Fellowes
garden white house
I was born in a lovely white house with a garden. Judy Garland
garden play heaven
It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play; it is really possible to say the highest things in praise of it. It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. Gilbert K. Chesterton
garden clouds weather
[V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode.... an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy castle. Clouds and colours of every varied dawn and eve are perpetually touching and turning it from clay to gold, or from gold to ivory. There is a line of woodland beyond a corner of my garden which is literally different on every one of the three hundred and sixty-five days. Sometimes it seems as near as a hedge, and sometimes as far as a faint and fiery evening cloud. Gilbert K. Chesterton
garden blessing rivers
I hope that God forgive us, all of us sinners turn us back into beginners, put us up where the winners go, Holy apartments in the gardens in which the rivers flow, thank you for all your blessings and all of your miracles. Lupe Fiasco
garden air peaceful
It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes. Maxim Gorky
garden afternoon building
Elton wanted a garden. They were building all afternoon while we were rehearsing. And then they built a fountain for Elton. And he said, I was only joking! Maurice Gibb
garden cry insects
O cricket from your cherry cry No one would ever guess How quickly you must die. Matsuo Basho
garden original
The garden has been set out to the original layout.
garden agnostic fairy
I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden Richard Dawkins
garden rose ordinary-people
I never promised you a rose garden. Traian Basescu
garden hunting air
I sailed on the cold air currents above the rooftops of Paris. I could see the river, the Louvre Museum, the gardens and palaces. And a mouse-yum. Hang on, Carter, I thought. not hunting mice. Rick Riordan
garden hoe people
Momma kept a garden, which sounds romantic to people who have never held a hoe Rick Bragg
garden las-vegas oasis
Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out the experience of wandering about in the open air to examine the architecture, the spectacles, and the stuff for sale, will still hanker after surprises and strangers. That the city as a whole is one of the most pedestrian-unfriendly places in the world suggests something of the problems to be faced, but that its attraction is a pedestrian oasis suggests the possibility of recovering the spaces in which walking is viable. Rebecca Solnit
garden cities annoyed
I like Toronto a lot, it's a good city. The only thing that really annoys me about Toronto is that you're turning Maple Leaf Gardens into a grocery store, which is absolutely nothing short of disgusting. Rick Wakeman
garden buried
Success is buried in the garden of failure. Rick Wakeman
garden broken tree
In God's garden of Grace, even broken trees bear fruit. Rick Warren
garden challenges may
A great challenge: stop ruining the garden which God has entrusted to us so that all may enjoy it. Pope Francis
garden earth environment
The Earth is our environment to protect and the garden to tend to. Pope Francis
garden life-is-like life-is
Life is like a garden, you reap what you sow Paulo Coelho