Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

If there is no gardener there is no garden.

Stephen Covey

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• I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Peace
  • Garden
  • Movement

• So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.

  

  Samuel Foote
  • Time
  • Garden
  • Married

• I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • People
  • Never
  • Garden

• I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one – only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs.

  

  Karel Capek
  • People
  • Live
  • House

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

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Work
  • Garden
  • Plant

• Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Garden

• For me the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Different
  • True
  • Beautiful

• A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Animal
  • Garden

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

  

  Beatrix Potter
  • Father
  • Garden

• Cabbage, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Wise
  • Garden
  • Kitchen

• I go forth to seek - To seek and claim the lovely magic garden Where grasses softly sigh and Muses speak.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Magic
  • Garden

• If you don't drink 56 bottles of water a week, scientists say you should take a garden hose at the end of the week and shove it up your ass.

  

  Lewis Black
  • Up
  • Water
  • Garden

• 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.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Cool
  • Garden
  • Winter

• I'm not much of a Rick Moody fan, but I want to be a fan for the Rick Moody I thought might appear after his first two novels, 'Garden State' (1992) and 'The Ice Storm' (1994).

  

  Alexander Chee
  • Garden
  • Storm

• I hate going anywhere. I'm really excited to travel and play all these different places, but if I had it my way, I would stay inside, maybe go to the back garden or walk around the corner to the shops. That's it.

  

  Courtney Barnett
  • Different
  • Hate
  • Travel

• I support Alice Waters in her desire that there be a vegetable garden at the White House. I don't think they should rip up the Rose Garden, because that's something that I love. They should probably dig up another patch and grow some vegetables there.

  

  Martha Stewart
  • Up
  • House
  • Support

• In Berkeley, we built the garden and a kitchen classroom. We've been working on it for 12 years. We've learned a lot from it. If kids grow it and cook it, they eat it.

  

  Alice Waters
  • Kids
  • Garden
  • Kitchen

• I always loved horror, but I read all sorts of books. My favourite as a child was 'The Secret Garden' which has a big influence on Lord Loss, believe it or not!

  

  Darren Shan
  • Believe
  • Garden

• I remember I was unsure about doing 'Shameless.' I'd never acted in anything so commercial. I read the script in the garden with my mum, Mary. She said it's filthy dirty, but she said these people have love and sex and nothing else. That made me take the role.

  

  Anne-Marie Duff
  • People
  • She
  • Remember

• In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of water, the origin and guide of its contours and gradients and of all the lives - the plants and small creatures, and the culture - that evolved here. That was always here to be seen, of course, and the recognition has forced itself, in one form or other, upon people in every part of the world who have been directly involved with the growing of living things. The gardener who ignores it is soon left with no garden.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas.

  

  Mireille Guiliano
  • Garden
  • Flower
  • Cities

• The mindset of chasing that next #1 record doesn't exist for me anymore. It's more about being a well-rounded entertainer than being a pop artist. Obviously, it would be wonderful to have a hit record but I don't base my happiness on that anymore. It's about the accomplishment of a project that satisfies me. I just want to enjoy the ride.

  

  Donny Osmond
  • Accomplishment
  • Mindset

• As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life. I don't think it is more dangerous than alcohol.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• If there is no gardener there is no garden.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Garden
  • Gardener