A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

A garden is a grand teacher... above all it teaches entire trust.

The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.

There is always in February some one day, at least, when one smells the yet distant, but surely coming, summer.

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

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.

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.

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.

It has taken me half a lifetime merely to find out what is best worth doing, and a good slice out of another half to puzzle out the ways of doing it.

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.

To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.

Positive thoughts, positive self-image.

Every discussion with a girl is an argument, and when you think you are right suddenly you realize that your trapped.

I'm tired of being responsible for other people's misery. I can't even put up with my own.

Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.

I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.

If your faith won't fit in the door that opens, then I argue do not walk through that door.

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice.

The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.

Democrats don't have a lot of time to turn the party around.