Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yo-Yo Ma

It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.

Winston Churchill

Every garden presents innumerable fascinating problems.

William Lawson

A garden makes all our senses swim with pleasure.

William Lawson

Whoever has not learned to let Nature have her way is not fit for a gardener, or, for that matter, for a contented soul. A garden makes all our senses swim with pleasure.

William Lawson

What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights.

Zora Neale Hurston

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

Zach Braff

People compared Garden State to the Graduate, but when was the last time you saw Dustin Hoffman doing what I do?

Zach Braff

Is 'Garden State' the next 'Citizen Kane'? Of course not. I'd like to think we aimed a little higher than that, frankly.

Zach Braff

Complete garbage. It's like Garden State, but in outer space.

Zach Braff

I don't ask questions. I just figure the extra warm days are God's way of rewarding me for Garden State

Zach Braff

When you're the director and the writer, you never have to remember your lines, and there's no one to call you on it. On Garden State I did different lines on every take, just making crap up. And it was great each time.

Zach Braff

I like to think of myself as the Chris Benoit of the movie industry, capable of taking any picture and carrying it to box-office success. Take Garden State, without me that would have just been two hours of Portman doging.

Zac Posen

I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.

Wendell Berry

The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.

Wendell Berry

The incarnate Word is with us, is still speaking, is present always, yet leaves no sign but everything that is.

Virginia Woolf

She tapped on the window with her embossed hairbrush. They were too far off to hear. The drone of the trees was in their ears; the chirp of birds; other incidents of garden life, inaudible, invisible to her in the bedroom, absorbed them. Isolated on a green island, hedged about with snowdrops, laid with a counterpane of puckered silk, the innocent island floated under her window. Only George lagged behind.

William Blake

And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')

Wallace Stegner

You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time.

Samuel Beckett

Enough of acting the infant who has been told so often how he was found under a cabbage that in the end he remembers the exact spot in the garden and the kind of life he led there before joining the family circle.

Rudy Rucker

When I see an old movie, like from the ’40s or ’50s or ’60s, the people look so calm. They don’t have smartphones, they’re not looking at computer screens, they’re taking their time. They’ll sit in a chair and just stare off into space. I think some day we’ll find our way back to that garden of Eden.

Kevin Henkes

When I'm looking for an idea, I'll do anything--clean the closet, mow the lawn, work in the garden.

Kevin Hart

I'm sure everyone knows now that only a few have performed in Madison Square Garden. That list is so small. Now I'm on that list. I'm a part of a very small group, which is unbelievable. You relish in that moment for a second.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My garden is a forest ledge Which older forest s bound; The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge, Then plunge to depths profound!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

Thierry Henry

I would love this place to be my garden. (on Arsenal's old stadium)

Terry Pratchett

No matter what she did with her hair it took about three minutes for it to tangle itself up again, like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Which, no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles].

Terry Pratchett

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, 'If wet, in the library.' Who could say that this is bad?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his primitive activity. He stands close to Nature; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be.

Si Robertson

Daddy had a farm - cows, pigs, OK, a big garden, OK? We did live off the land, and then we would supplement all that with whatever we could kill or catch. Whether we'd kill squirrels, deer, duck, or caught catfish or brim, that was what went on the table.

Shunryu Suzuki

Our tendency is to be interested in something that is growing in the garden, not in the bare soil itself. But if you want to have a good harvest, the most important thing is to make the soil rich and cultivate it well.