Garden Quotes

The sense of impending disaster hung over the garden like a chandelier.

A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.

A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour's wife over the garden fence.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden.

I am poor, but I am rich. I have my children, I have a garden with roses, and I have my faith and the memories of those who have gone before me. What more is there?

In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.

The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.

The cyborg would not recognize the garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust.

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.

A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

The Greatest Generation got to save old tires, dig a Victory Garden and forgo sugar. The Richest Generation is being asked to shop.

Looking at a first assembly is kind of like looking at an overgrown garden. You can't just wade in with a weed whacker; you don't yet know where the stems of the flowers are.

There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

There are many people who claim to be good cooks; just as there are many people who, after having repainted the garden gate take themselves to be painters.

The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.

Do not go to the garden of flowers! O friend! go not there; In your body is the garden of flowers. Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the infinite beauty.

I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You have to water.

Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.

Under the harvest moon, When the soft silver Drips shimmering Over the garden nights, Death, the gray mocker, Comes and whispers to you As a beautiful friend Who remembers.

The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.

It's amazing to see places like Madison Square Garden on the schedule again.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

The only limit to your garden is at the boundaries of your imagination.

How were the receipts today in Madison Square Garden ?

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

The garden of the world has no limits except in your mind. Its presence is more beautiful than the stars with more clarity than the polished mirror of your heart.

I do not envy the owners of very large gardens. The garden should fit its owner or his or her tastes, just as one's clothes do; it should be neither too large nor too small, but just comfortable.

When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.

Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.

I can sell out Madison Square Garden masturbating

Strategies grow initially like weeds in a garden, they are not cultivated like tomatoes in a hothouse.

Every breath is a giveaway dance between you and the plants.

When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before any one is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness.

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

Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding cheated at.

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

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

In order to comprehend the beauty of a Japanese garden, it is necessary to understand - or at least to learn to understand - the beauty of stone.

In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.

Fashion isn't just frocks. It's how we do our houses, our gardens, it's what we eat and drink.

Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.

I danced with the London Festival at Covent Garden. I'm a ballerina by trade; I'm a ballerina who sings by the way.

A late summer garden has a tranquility found no other time of the year.

Really, what [sea] ice does is it acts like a garden. … Losing that ice is like losing the soil in a garden.