Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rumi

If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden; and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.

Rumi

I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.

Rumi

Where, with your one rose you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?

Rumi

Beauty is the garden scent of roses, murmuring water flowing gently...Can words describe the indescribable?

Rumi

Love, the life-giving garden of this world.

Rumi

In the garden I see only your face From trees and blossoms I inhale only your fragrance.

Rumi

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

Tom Felton

I do have a bit of a garden, and I'd love a hovercraft to get around it - one of the big four-seater ones with the fan on the back.

Stephen Covey

Where there's no gardener, there's no garden.

Stephen Covey

If there is no gardener there is no garden.

Stephen Covey

The only thing that endures over time is the 'Law of the Farm.' You must prepare the ground, plant the seed, cultivate, and water if you expect to reap the harvest.

Vanessa Paradis

I was born in a suburb of Paris, and I grew up there until I was 16, so there were always a lot of barbecues, a garden, friends.

Vanna Bonta

We are the ancestors of those gardening the universe.

Susannah York

Someone had told me about a house in Wandsworth, southwest London - 21 Blenkarne Road - with an incredible garden, so I went and had a look. I walked in and just said, 'I want it.'

Steven Chu

For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision" measurement of gravity. The years of experience building things taught me skills that were directly applicable to the construction of the pendulum. Twenty-five years later, I was to develop a refined version of this measurement using laser-cooled atoms in an atomic fountain interferometer.

Susan Hill

The more contemplative gardener, seeing the garden as a whole, the design of it, and its nature as a still place of delight and refreshment, will wait and hope for the moment when it seems to achieve perfection. Awareness of when such moments are most likely helps to make them happen; they will not be entirely accidental but anticipated; everything will be planned to encourage them.

T. S. Eliot

Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.

Sylvia Earle

Protecting vital sources of renewal - unscathed marshes, healthy reefs, and deep-sea gardens - will provide hope for the future of the Gulf, and for all of us.

Traian Basescu

I never promised you a rose garden.

Rick Riordan

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 Bragg

Momma kept a garden, which sounds romantic to people who have never held a hoe

Rebecca Solnit

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.

Rick Wakeman

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

Success is buried in the garden of failure.

Rick Warren

In God's garden of Grace, even broken trees bear fruit.

Toots Thielemans

Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!

Rebecca Solnit

All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.

Rudyard Kipling

Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.

Stephen Moyer

In London I had pear trees in my back garden, so I'd make my own pear and green tomato chutney.

Stephen Gardiner

In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.

Stephen Gardiner

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden

Stephen Fry

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Sri Aurobindo

Only the soul that is naked and unashamed, can be pure and innocent , even as Adam was in the primal garden of humanity .