Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malcolm Lowry

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.

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.

Epicurus

My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural remedy. Amid such pleasures as these have I grown old.

Emily Dickinson

Vinnie rocks her Garden and moans that God won't help her. I suppose he is too busy getting angry with the Wicked every day.

Henri Matisse

The model for me is a touchstone, it is a door which I must break open in order to reach the garden in which I am alone and feel good, even the model exists only for what use I can make of it.

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our earthly ball a peopled garden.

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!

Detroit's not a garden place in any way, shape or form. No laying by the pool or playing golf.

This garden has been a labor of love for my mom and the rest of our family,

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You want it to look like you went out into the garden and picked them yourself.

Germaine Greer

A garden is the best alternative therapy.

Herbert V. Prochnow

Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel.

Henry David Thoreau

The order of things should be reversed; the seventh day should be the day of toil...and the other six his Sabbath of the affections and the soul, in which to range this widerspread garden, and drink in the soft influences and sublime revelations of Nature...

Henry David Thoreau

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.

Henry David Thoreau

When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall? Even some sects of philosophers have felt the necessity of importing the woods to themselves, since they did not go to the woods. They planted groves and walks of Plantanes, where they took subdiales ambulationes in porticos open to the air. Of course, it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither.

Henry David Thoreau

I was determined to know beans.

Henry David Thoreau

Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.

Henry David Thoreau

Perfect alchemists I keep who can transmute substances without end, and thus the corner of my garden is an inexhaustible treasure-chest. Here you can dig, not gold, but the value which gold merely represents; and there is no Signor Blitz about it.

Jerry Falwell

Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.

Caterina Murino

I love all the shoe shops in Covent Garden. Laura Lee Jewellery on Monmouth Street for delicate gold jewellery. Every time I get a part in an English movie, I buy myself a piece of jewellery from there.

Gottfried Leibniz

Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.