Dumb.com >> Quotes >> Garden Quotes >>
Garden Quotes
This section contains Garden Quotes


A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it. (Quote by - Charles Lamb)

Gardening is not a rational act. (Quote by - Margaret Atwood)

The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. (Quote by - Hanna Rion)

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors. (Quote by - Charles Baudelaire)

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. (Quote by - Orson Scott Card)

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)

I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green. (Quote by - Nathaniel Hawthorne)

Placemaking, and a good English Garden depend entirely on principle and have very little to do with fashion. (Quote by - Capability Brown)

You changed my life. You changed my life, and I've known you four days. This is the beginning of something really big, but right now, I gotta go. (Quote by - Largeman)

I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day. (Quote by - F. Frankfort Moore)

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories. (Quote by - Eric Brown)

It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not. (Quote by - W.C. Sellar & R.J. Yeatman)

My wife once described the garden as being ludicrous, which of course it is. But to me, ludicrous is good. (Quote by - Bill Oddie)

If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like. (Quote by - Sam)

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. (Quote by - Douglas William Jerrold)

I was discovered in a shopping centre! (Quote by - Alyssa Sutherland)

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. (Quote by - Alice Walker)

Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart. (Quote by - Nathaniel Hawthorne)

When your garden is finished, I hope it will be more beautiful than you anticipated, require less care than you had expected, and have cost only a little more than you had planned. (Quote by - Thomas Church)

It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. (Quote by - James Douglas)

Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy. (Quote by - Astrid Alauda)

I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit. (Quote by - Reginald Farrer)

Wow! I cannot believe you're not really retarded! (Quote by - Sam)

Pages:  1  2  3  4  5