Garden Sayings And Quotes
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“I want to get to the point where one day I don’t have to have anything but a rug and a microphone stand on stage and still be able to sell out places like Madison Square Garden, like Bruce Springsteen does.”
– Demi Lovato
“Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.”
– Dixie Lee Ray
“My father read ‘The New York Times,’ my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.”
– Donna Leon
“Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.”
– Doris Day
“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
– Douglas Adams
“If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.”
– Eamon de Valera
“When I need to think of, like, a peaceful scene or something, I think of my back garden in summertime. And whenever I hear the lawnmower next door, I always think it’s really peaceful.”
– Ed Westwick
“The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I’m always at home – yea, I’m always at Om.”
– Eden Ahbez
“I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.”
– Edward Fitzgerald
“I’m a regular Canadian girl. I enjoy staying home. In the summer I’ve got a garden. I’m very much a homebody, a normal, family-oriented girl. But I do have this other incredible side of my life that involves acting and traveling.”
– Elisha Cuthbert
“And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert
“I grew up at my grandmother’s house and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you’re a kid.”
– Elton John
“I’m not a Luddite, but I’m outside more than I’m on my computer. We have a micro-farm – it’s a step up from a garden. We have a pretty extensive vineyard. We grow about 60 percent of our own food, make our own wine, have chickens for eggs.”
– Emilio Estevez
“My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn’t take it out of my garden.”
– Eric Morecambe
“Madison Square Garden, November 1984. I don’t recall taking too much fear into the ring. I knew I could fight. But I got a big shock. They put me in with this rough, tough veteran called Lionel Byarm. He tested me to the limit. But I fought my heart out and, in the end, I prevailed. The story of my life, in my very first fight.”
– Evander Holyfield
“If we don’t empower ourselves with knowledge, then we’re gonna be led down a garden path.”
– Fran Drescher
“God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.”
– Francis Bacon
“Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.”
– Francis Cabot Lowell
“Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff’s house.”
– Franz Schubert
“The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.”
– George Balanchine
“The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.”
– George Bernard Shaw
“But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings – then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.”
– George Cadbury
“The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.”
– George Edward Moore
“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.”
– Gertrude Jekyll
“The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.”
– Gertrude Jekyll
“In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.”
– Gertrude Jekyll
“A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.”
– Gertrude Stein
“The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton
“We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we’ll achieve a better world.”
– Guy Laliberte
“When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat.”
– Gwyneth Paltrow
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