My Garden Quotes

Everyone knows French artist Claude Monet's "Water Lilies," which he painted in his garden. You find the images everywhere from galleries to dorm rooms and dentists' lounges.

All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden.

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

If the weeds are pulled out of the garden too soon, the too shallow roots of the plants developing around it get pulled up with the weed also. Time is what is needed before criticism can be useful.

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.

The sunlight on the garden Hardens and grows cold, We cannot cage the minute Within its nets of gold

My cat did that the other day when he came in from the garden.

I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day.

The Earth is our environment to protect and the garden to tend to.

As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.

...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being.

Much like a subtle spider which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide; If aught do touch the utmost thread of it, She feels it instantly on every side.

It is impossible for any culture to be sound and healthy without a proper respect and proper regard for the soil.

The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the day, only raises crabs and choke pears, deserves to lose the respect of all sensible men.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

We don't live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.

Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?

And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.

My daughter and two sons are the flowers in my heart and garden.

By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.

A Warrior also knows that the fool who gives advice about someone else's garden is not tending his own plants.

Libraries Are Neccessary Gardens, Unsurpassed At Growing Excitement

A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us.

As stewards of God's creation, we are called to make the earth a beautiful garden for the human family.

I wouldn't trust Newcastle's back five to protect my garden gnomes from squirrels.

I want to play a show at Madison Square Garden in New York, which is where the New York Knicks play. That's what I want.

Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.

The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at the entrance through which the visitors pass to the gardens.

It took me a long time to get used to the reality that my grandmother had passed away. Wherever I was, in the house, in the garden, out on the fields, her face always appeared so clearly to me.

The spirits of the air live on the smells Of fruit; and joy, with pinions light, roves round The gardens, or sits singing in the trees.

We’ll meet again in Lvov, my love and I…” Tatiana hums, eating her ice cream, in our Leningrad, in jasmine June, near Fontanka, the Neva, the Summer Garden, where we are forever young.

My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.

I am the fonder of my garden for all the trouble it gives me, and the grudging reward that my unending labours exact.

Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.

There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.

If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.

All my hurts my garden spade can heal.

If you're kept off the debates, you can't reach more two percent of people even if you campaign every state and fill the big conventions like Madison Square Garden.

I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden

If I had to pick a single word to describe what my pictures are all about, I would say 'secrets.' As a child I always had a secret world and my favorite book was “A Secret Garden.

Im okay with being unimpressive. I sleep better.

You're damn right I do. I'm in Madison Square Garden getting the s*** knocked out of me

When a man plants a tree, he plants himself.

Old gardeners never die; they just very slowly turn into the most magnificent compost. But what a marvellous, active brew it is!

The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft; and gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.