Garden Quotes
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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
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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
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A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.
Alexander Hamilton
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'T is just like a summer bird-cage in a garden,-the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption for fear they shall never get out.
John Webster
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Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?
Bill Vaughan
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The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament.
Alistair Cooke
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When we see a beautiful object, a beautiful garden, or a beautiful flower, let us think that there we behold a ray of the infinite beauty of God, who has given existence to that object.
Alphonsus Liguori
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If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool.
I. L. Peretz
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She will promise you more Than the Garden of Eden Then she'll carelessly cut you And laugh while you're bleeding.
Billy Joel
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There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream ... For a garden is Arcady brought home. It is man's bit of gaudy make-believe - his well-disguised fiction of an unvexed Paradise ... a world where gayety knows no eclipse and winter and rough weather are held at bay.
J. D. Sedding
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A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all...much of the magic of the heather beds would vanish if, as we bent over them, there was no chance that we might hear a faint rustle among the blossoms, and find ourselves staring into a pair of sleepy green eyes.
Beverley Nichols
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No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it.
Alfred Austin
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I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small seed To grow to greenness and renown: And then some day you'll pass my way, See gold and crimson, bell and star, And catch my garden's soul, and say: "How sweet these cottage gardens are!"
E. Nesbit
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The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with the weeds and the fittest might survive.
John Ruskin
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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
Zeno of Elea
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The year was 1882. The palace was the Luxembourg Palace: the ball, the Senat Bal, held at the beginning of autumn. It was still warm, and so the garden was used as well. I was the soprano. I was Lilliet Berne.
Alexander Chee
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Do not go to the garden of flowers!
Kabir
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I, you, he, she, we
In the garden of mystic lovers,
these are not true distinctions.
Rumi
