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

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.

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.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface

The good is the brother of the true

We must never forget our responsibilities as politicians to our country and its citizens. We must always remain humble before our people.

We need to be together, and love each other.

I call myself a Possibilian: I'm open to...ideas that we don't have any way of testing right now.

It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

As soon as I read the script for Hannah Montana, I knew it kinda related to me. I wanted to disguise myself as not some celebrity's daughter, just be me and find people that like me for me.

The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.

We've been playing ugly. Without all of our bodies, we've been kicking it all over the shop, but fortunately we've been able to make the big buckets and rely on our defense for once.