Garden Sayings And Quotes
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“The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.”
– Michael Pollan
“My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and inventions that he had made over 50 years, such as a keyboard called a clavioline, which can be heard on some Beatles songs – it was popular in the 60s. So we had all that at home.”
– Michel Gondry
“I always wanted to create this community that would come and tell their own story, shoot it – and watch them. The idea is to not have one entity who creates the work, the project, and another entity who consumes it; the idea is people create their own work, like somebody cultivating his garden.”
– Michel Gondry
“Eventually my goal is get a place in Ojai where I can have animals and a big garden. Just drink wine all day and hang in my garden.”
– Michelle Branch
“I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.”
– Miranda Richardson
“I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden.”
– Moon Unit Zappa
“For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend’s garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!”
– Nigel Dennis
“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.”
– Nikki Giovanni
“Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden.”
– Orson Scott Card
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
– Oscar Wilde
“One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.”
– Paul Klee
“I know when you think about the South, you think about fried foods, but we eat a tremendous amount of vegetables. I have my own garden, so vegetables have always been a big part of my life. I love broccoli. I love fresh beets. It’s not all about the fried chicken and the biscuits.”
– Paula Deen
“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
“I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It’s a large, very large garden, seen?”
– Peter Tosh
“Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.”
– Queen Elizabeth II
“I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I’d have to put back the Charmin. We still don’t have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.”
– Rachael Ray
“There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can’t prove that there aren’t any, so shouldn’t we be agnostic with respect to fairies?”
– Richard Dawkins
“Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.”
– Richard M. Nixon
“Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more.”
– Rip Torn
“The first season of ‘Community’ stumbled a bit because the plotlines too often veered into realism, but that is not a problem anymore. Not when prize episodes concern a campus wide blanket fort, or a secret garden with a magic trampoline.”
– Rob Sheffield
“It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
“Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member’s freedom of thought and action.”
– Robert Shea
“When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.”
– Robert Smithson
“A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.”
– Robert Southey
“A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant – rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance – but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.”
– Roberto Burle Marx
“It’s amazing to see places like Madison Square Garden on the schedule again.”
– Roger Andrew Taylor
“I heard on public radio recently, there’s a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then they take turns, they keep matching up with other people. Two people will weed down one row and switch over with two other people. It’s in Vermont. I don’t think I’d be very good at Weed Dating.”
– Roy Blount, Jr.
“What’s a butterfly garden without butterflies?”
– Roy Rogers
“Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?”
– Scott Reed
“A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.”
– Sherman Alexie
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