Garden Quotes
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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In fine weather the old gentelman is almost constantly in the garden; and when it is too wet to go into it, he will look out the window at it, by the hour together. He has always something to do there, and you will see him digging, and sweeping, and cutting, and planting, with manifest delight.
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I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance by working in daddy's garden.
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In Garden Party or 40 Days and 40 Nights, I played characters who people dont necessarily like; I just find some humanity in them.
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Joe Frazier's life didn't start with Ali. I was a Golden Gloves champ. Gold medal in Tokyo '64. Heavyweight champion of the world long before I fought Ali in the Garden.
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I just like to sit and admire my garden; it's so well kept by my gardener and my girlfriend.
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We have a well and a garden. I crawl around in the mud and grow great vegetables.
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When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness. In this hour divinely fresh and still, the fair face of every flower salutes me with a silent joy. . . . All the cares, perplexities, and griefs of existence, all the burdens of life slip from my shoulders and leave me with the heart of a little child that asks nothing beyond the present moment of innocent bliss.
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We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors.
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Even in the stifling bosom of the town, A garden, in which nothing thrives, has charms That soothes the rich possessor; much consol'd, That here and there some sprigs of mournful mint, Or nightshade, or valerian, grace the well He cultivates.
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Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.
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This is brave Bear-Garden language!
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To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
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My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a frosty Christmas morning.
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Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.
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They are the three venues I wanted to box in - I wasn't really interested in Las Vegas and all of them places. The three I always said was Croke Park, United, and Madison Square Garden.
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No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.
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Honestly, the only way Garden State could have been better was if I played every character. I'm awesome.
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Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden.
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I, Woman, am that wonder-breathing rose That blossoms in the garden of the King.
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In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.
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She was never a tower of strength to me, but at least she was always a lodge in my garden of cucumbers.
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There is no reason why the Louvre should be your favourite gallery just because it has the grandest collections in France, any more than Kew should necessarily be a favourite garden because it has the largest assemblage of plants, or Tesco your chosen shop because it has the widest variety of canned beans.
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Come little children, I'll take thee away into a Land of Enchantment. Come little children, the time's come to play here in my Garden of Magic.
