Garden Quotes

• I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first.

  

  Conrad Veidt
  • Why
  • Reading
  • Garden

• Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff Ryman's 'The Child Garden' is exquisite and utterly beguiling. Mervyn Peake's 'Gormenghast' trilogy is an astonishing piece of multi-faceted storytelling. So quality of writing does not condemn the genre.

  

  David Gemmell
  • Writing
  • Quality
  • Garden

• The day after the attack, governor, I stood in the Rose Garden and I told the American people and the world that we are going to find out exactly what happened. That this was an act of terror and I also said that we're going to hunt down those who committed this crime.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • American

• I enjoyed playing everywhere, especially my mother's garden and my neighbor's. I loved my kindergarten. We sang songs; we played everywhere and ate lunch. I had a childhood that I would wish for anyone.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • Mother
  • Wish
  • Childhood

• One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.

  

  W. E. Johns
  • Desire
  • Garden
  • Essentials

• The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Wind
  • Rain
  • Flowers

• 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

• 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

• A garden is a human creation. It has to be thought of first, wished into being, planned for like a child.

  

  Amy N. Stewart
  • Child
  • Garden
  • Creation

• Death is only an old door/Set in a garden wall.

  

  Nancy Byrd Turner
  • Death
  • Door
  • Wall

• 'The Secret Garden' was the first musical that I fell in love with when I was a kid. My mom took me to see it, and it was the first one that I owned the soundtrack to and listened to over and over again.

  

  Allison Tolman
  • Mom
  • Garden

• When you're doing exactly what you want to do, it's not tiring. You've been planting these seeds, and finally, you have a full garden in bloom; you're like, 'Oh, I just want to smell the flowers and play among the flowers all day.' That's what I'm doing. I'm playing among the flowers.

  

  Colman Domingo
  • Garden

• I like to walk around. And I have a really big garden in Brooklyn. Growing tomatoes in my backyard feels very rewarding.

  

  Anna Ewers
  • Growing
  • Garden

• I don't ask questions. I just figure the extra warm days are God's way of rewarding me for Garden State

  

  Zach Braff
  • God
  • Way
  • States

• I've realized that I really like spending time in the countryside and having a garden.

  

  Doutzen Kroes
  • Time
  • Garden

• When you're the director and the writer, you never have to remember your lines, and there's no one to call you on it. On Garden State I did different lines on every take, just making crap up. And it was great each time.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I have thought about posterity all my life. There isn't as much adventure and creative unfolding as there is in planting a garden and watching it grow. It's like watching the film grow, because you don't know what the seed of an idea is going to actually result in.

  

  Barbara Hammer
  • Film
  • Adventure
  • Grow

• People compared Garden State to the Graduate, but when was the last time you saw Dustin Hoffman doing what I do?

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Time
  • Garden

• Now stand you on the top of happy hours, And many maiden gardens yet unset, With virtuous wish would bear you living flowers, Much liker than your painted counterfeit: So should the lines of life that life repair Which this, Time's pencil, or my pupil pen Neither in inward worth nor outward fair Can make you live your self in eyes of men.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Wish
  • Eye

• If you're dumb enough to volunteer for the army, I don't see why we're supposed to feel so bad when you get shot. I'm not saying we should throw a party or anything, but is it such a tragedy? If I'd gotten shot before I made 'Garden State', yeah, that's a tragedy, but some red-state hick getting his legs blown off? Come on.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Party

• And make us as Newton was, who in his garden watching The apple falling towards England, became aware Between himself and her of an eternal tie.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Science
  • Fall
  • Garden

• A spot whereon the founders lived and died Seemed once more dear than life; ancestral trees, Or gardens rich in memory glorified Marriages, alliances, and families, And every bride's ambition satisfied.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Memories
  • Tree
  • Ambition

• Way over yonder is a place I have seen In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream.

  

  Carole King
  • Long
  • Dream
  • Way

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