Garden Quotes

• I remember what a thrill it was to go from the back streets of Birmingham to Madison Square Garden in New York...it's like playing on Mars. You can't buy that.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Remember
  • Birmingham
  • Madison

• My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Time
  • Great
  • She

• And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head.

  

  Jane Campion
  • Poetry
  • Effort
  • Garden

• My 'act' was schoolwork. I was your basic, garden-variety, ambitious, upwardly mobile, hard-working Jewish boy from Brooklyn. I was bound to go beyond my parents. It was simply the way things were.

  

  Clive Davis
  • Parents
  • Boy
  • Garden

• What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe?

  

  Charles Jencks
  • Universe
  • Celebration
  • Miniaturization

• Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Hair
  • Garden
  • Pavement

• Go into the garden and get me a pumpkin.

  

  Charles Perrault
  • Garden

• Yes, I grew up with guns. For my 16th birthday, in fact, I received a .357 instead of a car. But there was nothing playful about them; they were tools. My parents went through a back-to-the-land phase. Most of our vegetables and fruits came from our own garden.

  

  Benjamin Percy
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Car

• I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden.

  

  Deborah Moggach
  • Mad
  • Garden

• My family lived off the land and summer evening meals featured baked stuffed tomatoes, potato salad, corn on the cob, fresh shelled peas and homemade ice cream with strawberries from our garden. With no air conditioning in those days, the cool porch was the center of our universe after the scorching days.

  

  David Mixner
  • Family
  • Universe
  • Cool

• Sweep the garden, any size, said the roshi. Sweeping, sweeping alone as the garden grows large or small. Any song sung working the garden brings up from sand gravel soil through straw bamboo wood and less tangible elements Power song for the hands Healing song for the senses what can and cannot be perceived of the soul.

  

  Olga Broumas
  • Up
  • Power
  • Soul

• It's not so much about conquering Madison Square Garden or Vegas. The opponents who I fight will take me all around different venues and arenas. I need to conquer opponents.

  

  Anthony Joshua
  • Different
  • Garden
  • Vegas

• We're all assigned a piece of the garden, a corner of the universe that is ours to transform. Our corner of the universe is our own life - our relationships, our homes, our work, our current circumstances -. exactly as they are. Every situation we find ourselves in is an opportunity, perfectly planned by the Holy Spirit, to teach love instead of fear.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Opportunity

• 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 always remember my childhood house with happy memories. There was a beautiful garden, and outside my bedroom window was a jasmine vine which would open in the evenings, giving off a divine scent.

  

  Carolina Herrera
  • Remember
  • Happy
  • House

• Friends are flowers in life's garden.

  

  Okakura Kakuzo
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Flower

• If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool.

  

  I. L. Peretz
  • Wife
  • Husband
  • Eden

• Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.

  

  Liberty Hyde Bailey
  • Good
  • Children
  • Opportunity

• At Roden Crater, I was interested in taking the cultural artifice of art out into the natural surround. I wanted the work to be enfolded in nature in such a way that light from the sun, moon and stars empowered the spaces. I wanted to bring culture to the natural surround as if one was designing a garden.

  

  James Turrell
  • Work
  • Art
  • Nature

• It is this subtle dimension of understanding that marks the southwestern Indian peoples from other religions and separates tribal peoples from the world's religions. Somewhere in the planetary history religious expression changed from participation in the sound, color and rhythm of nature to the abstractions of man outside this context pleading for temporary respite and hoping in the next life to return to the Garden.

  

  Vine Deloria, Jr.
  • Men
  • Understanding
  • Religious

• If we're going to solve the problems in North Korea, the first thing we're going to have to do is start helping them get basic amenities like electricity, televisions, and DVD players over there. Otherwise, how can they watch 'Garden State'?

  

  Zach Braff
  • Player
  • Garden
  • Dvds

• God is a God who has not given up on His people. If He wanted to give up, He would have given up back in the Garden of Eden.

  

  Kirk Cameron
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• For all its prestige, its fabulous views, its indoor pool, and its lovely garden, 24 Sussex is more like an old hotel than a modern home.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • Pool
  • Views
  • Prestige

• My agent was ambitious for me. But going out and chasing it? No, I'd rather work in my vegetable garden or play with my kid. I guess I'm kind of boring.

  

  Kathleen Quinlan
  • Work
  • Garden

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