Garden Quotes

Beauty is what I feel my life is about - the garden, the house, whatever. I see the world that way, yet it isn't.

In the garden of our house, when I was three. My brothers and I had a jumping wall. I remember it as enormously high, but it was probably only about a foot and a half.

That's exactly why nature always trumps gardens. Gardens are just reality pruned of chaos. What doesn't work you rip out.

There are several ways to lay out a little garden; the best way is to get a gardener.

Sometimes I think of blogging as finger exercises for a violinist; sometimes I think of it as mulching a garden. It is incredibly useful and helpful to my "real" writing.

But happiness ... happiness grows at our own firesides," she said. "It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." ~ The House at Riverton

From as young as I can remember, I always wanted to be a singer... My mum taught me 'Going Down the Garden to Eat Worms' for a competition when I was about 4.

roses are the only flowers at garden-parties; the only flowers that everybody is certain of knowing.

One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.

When State Way Gardens and The Robert Taylor Homes were being torn down, it seemed like a perfect opportunity to use that as a backdrop for the development of a super hero narrative.

Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not, Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not. If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive, Noah is your guide in the typhoon's eye, grieve not.

I frowned, wondering if Trent would mind being the size of a fairy for a day. He could talk to the newest tenants in his garden.

The fellow who tends the greenhouse gardens? Trust me, Lady, you'd let him stake your tomatoes.

I garden a lot in LA, so fashion consists of boots, work pants and T-shirts, unless I'm going out.

Life is much different from the days when there were lilies in my mother’s garden, and all my secrets fit into a paper cup.

Life, it is not simple like a garden, where flowers are always flowers and weeds are always weeds.

In the garden of tabloid delight, there is always a clean towel and another song.

When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy.

Your thoughts are like the seeds you plant in your garden. Your beliefs are like the soil in which you plant these seeds.

To the landscape architect a rock garden... appears... the work of a lunatic.

Those who plant trees plant hope.

I honestly believe that everything I know about the writing of non-fiction (or writing) could be engraved on the head of a pin with a garden hoe.

Let everyone who makes garden plans frequently insert the letters C.P. in them as a reminder, the same standing for climate permitting.

Surely there is no greater garden for human-nature study than the flotsam and jetsam of the hospital.

At the weekends I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.

If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.

Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.

Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out.

We're all assigned a piece of the garden, a corner of the universe that is ours to transform.

For we must bear in mind that the greater number of garden pictures known to us are taken from tombs.

Right on to the New Period vineyard arbors were the centre and chief ornament of all gardens.

Protein has been intensely over-represented on the plate. Now, the garden should be the main drag for main courses.

I very much consider the Internet a garden, and I'm a gardener, and I plant things in it and I work within the framework of the soil, the seasons, the climate, and the temperature, to produce plants.

Gardens do offer a temporal tableau and certainly mean differently in different eras and indeed geographies (think of the formal gardens in France).

I'm always somehow drawn to that sense of how fragile things are and how a garden means so differently depending upon whose language you happen to be in or whose century you happen to be in.

Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.

Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden.

We're going to die," Keith said, the moment he was gone. "This man is a serial killer. We're going to die, and he's going to bury us in his garden and build a shed on us.

A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.

God will restore his planet and his children to their Garden of Eden splendor. It'll be perfect. Perfect in grandeur. Perfect in righteousness. Perfect in harmony.

True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.

There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.

You need a temple to feel good spiritually? Go to a beautiful garden!

In a twilight garden, when a brown nightingale starts singing, what is left to a blonde chicken is to remain silent.

In the garden of existence, there exists two beautiful roses: Music and love.

It is a source of happiness to see the elderly working in their garden or looking from their windows! It is so good to see them alive and well!

In the garden of literature, the highest and the most charismatic flowers are always the quotations.

The most beautiful garden is always the one that we have made it with our own efforts!

When you increase the number of gardens, you increase the number of heavens too!

You can be a flower in somebody's garden or a pig or the sunshine or a crow or a nightingale! Be something nice in someone else's garden.