Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Cowley

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

Blake Shelton

I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime.

Alice Morse Earle

Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a reason for being sunken other than a whim or increase in costliness.

Conan O'Brien

The Olive Garden is bringing back its 'Pasta Pass,' which lets you eat as much pasta as you want for seven weeks. In a related story, Chris Christie just suspended his campaign.

There are 1,400 troops here. It's so crazy. I got guys saluting me, and I'm standing here in my big old gardening hat,

Orson Scott Card

If a pig goes upon the threshing-floor, or a field, or a garden, and the owner of the meadow, or the field, or the garden smites it so that it die, he shall give it back to its owner; but if he does not give it back, he becomes a thief.

Lois McMaster Bujold

A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.

David Bentley

It is true that a great deal of the rhetoric of the new atheism is often just the confessional rote of materialist fundamentalism (which, like all fundamentalisms, imagines that in fact it represents the side of reason and truth); but it is also true that the new atheism has sprung up in a garden of contending fundamentalisms.

Conan O'Brien

The CEO of the Olive Garden blames his company's low profits on Obamacare - which is odd because most people won't eat at the Olive Garden until they have health insurance.

Claude Monet

Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything.

Claude Monet

Pictures aren't made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red...But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.

Claude Monet

What I need most of all is color, always, always.

Claude Monet

The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky.

Eve Best

I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place.

I said about any garden store you want to go to,

Bryn Terfel

I remember when I rang the Opera House in Covent Garden to say, 'I'm having terrible back problems,' ... They tried everything to help get me there. They said, 'You can sing from a chair.' But the thing was, I couldn't even sit.

People are probably looking at Luther Burbank Home and Gardens and wondering who they are and how they got that (award).

My mother was out there with a garden hose. She lives in Arlington, near the Mansfield border. She's OK, but it's representative of what's been going on all afternoon.

William Davis

My walls outside must have some flowers,My walls within must have some books;A house that's small; a garden large,And in it leafy nooks.

William Davies

My walls outside must have some flowers, My walls within must have some books; A house that's small; a garden large, And in it leafy nooks.

Alice Hoffman

That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.

Anna Akhmatova

I go forth to seek To seek and claim the lovely magic garden Where grasses softly sigh and Muses speak.

Ann Voskamp

From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.

Alexander Pope

Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

Alexander Pope

The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.

E. O. Wilson

Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.

Dorothy Richardson

In the midst of the happiness they brought there was always a lurking shadow. The shadow of incompatibility; of the impossibility of being at once bound and free. The garden breeds a longing for the wild; the wild a homesickness for the garden.

Cory Doctorow

Each generation of rabbis is necessarily less perfect than the rabbis that came before, since each generation is more removed from the perfection of the Garden. Therefore, no rabbi is allowed to overturn any of his forebears' wisdom, since they are all, by definition, smarter than him.

Clive Anderson

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

E. B. White

Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution that we used to be.

David Attenborough

Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?

Daryl Hannah

Anything you do sustainably feels so good that you're a full-on addict as soon as you try it. If you eat only vegetables and fruits that you grow yourself from your garden, or organic food, it tastes so much better and is so much better for you, you can't really go back.