Garden Quotes

• A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all.

  

  Beverley Nichols
  • Animal
  • Cat
  • Deserve

• 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

• Blessed sister, holy mother, spirit of the fountain, spirit of the garden, Suffer us not to mock ourselves with falsehood Teach us to care and not to care

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Mother
  • Blessed
  • Sister

• May and June. Soft syllables, gentle names for the two best months in the garden year: cool, misty mornings gently burned away with a warming spring sun, followed by breezy afternoons and chilly nights. The discussion of philosophy is over; it's time for work to begin.

  

  H. Peter Loewer
  • Time
  • Work
  • May

• Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow.

  

  Penelope Keith
  • Success
  • Garden

• The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.

  

  Charlotte Smith
  • Garden

• It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not.

  

  W. C. Sellar
  • Garden

• I do that which I do in every place. Here also, at the gateway of that garden into which time has not entered, I fight with time my ever-losing battle, because to do that diverts me.

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • Time
  • Garden

• If I could change anything about Garden State, it would be to cast somebody else for the female lead. Natalie just isn't really that good of an actress. Especially when compared to me. Just watch the two of us, it's light and dark. I am by far the better Jew.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Good
  • Light
  • Dark

• The body is the garden of the soul.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Garden

• If you want to be an architect of change by raising great kids, God bless. If you want to do it by raising money for your kid's school, great. If you want to build a garden - whatever it is. Women like myself - they're complicated, and they have a lot of different interests and qualities within them.

  

  Maria Shriver
  • Great
  • God
  • Different

• Let everyone who makes garden plans frequently insert the letters C.P. in them as a reminder, the same standing for climate permitting.

  

  Mabel Osgood Wright
  • Garden

• That is, the only reason salvation is necessary is to get us back to the garden. The Pentateuch not only presents where we began but also why we are not there any more, and why and how we need to get back.

  

  David Baker
  • Why
  • Garden

• the various earth odors all have a separate tale to tell, and the leaf mold of the woods bears a wholly different fragrance from that of the soil under pasture turf, or the breath that the garden gives off in great sighs of relief when it is relaxed and refreshed by a summer shower.

  

  Mabel Osgood Wright
  • Great
  • Different
  • Earth

• Fair stands the ancient Rectory, The Rectory of Croft, The sun shines bright upon it, The breezes whisper soft. From all the house and garden Its inhabitants come forth, And muster in the road without, And pace in twos and threes about, The children of the North.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Children
  • House
  • Road

• The only Shakespeare I ever did was a production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' two years in a row in my garden in Rockland County on the Hudson River in the 1980s. I had all the actors from the Actors Studio come out, and we made our own costumes.

  

  Ellen Burstyn
  • Dream
  • Night
  • River

• The CEO of the Olive Garden blames his company's low profits on Obamacare - which is odd because most people won't eat at the Olive Garden until they have health insurance.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • People
  • Health
  • Insurance

• Designing a game can be like a Japanese garden. It's not what you put in but how much you take away.

  

  Jenova Chen
  • Game
  • Garden
  • Japanese

• It would be the greatest delight of the seraphs to pile up sand on the seashore or to pull weeds in a garden for all eternity, if they found out such was God's will. Our Lord himself teaches us to ask to do the will of God on earth as the saints do it in heaven: "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Up
  • God
  • Done

• High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.

  

  James Wolcott
  • Children
  • High
  • Age

• But evil has been around since the Garden of Eden, and God's plan for victory was designed before the world began. The Bible tells us to fear no evil.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • World
  • God
  • Fear

• He speaks Bear-garden. That is, such rude and uncivil, or sordid and dirty language, as the rabble that frequent those sports, are wont to use.

  

  John Ray
  • Sports
  • Dirty
  • Rude

• On the terrace of the Pepiniere, the 150 pupils of the Institut Chemique talk chemistry as they leave the auditoria and the laboratory. The echoes of the magnificent public garden of the city of Nancy make the words reverberate; coupling, condensation, grignardization. Moreover, their clothes stay impregnated with strong and characteristic odours; we follow the initiates of Hermes by their scent. In such an environment, how is it possible not to be productive?

  

  Victor Grignard
  • Science
  • Strong
  • Garden

• Is 'Garden State' the next 'Citizen Kane'? Of course not. I'd like to think we aimed a little higher than that, frankly.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Garden

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