Garden Quotes · Page 39

I like spending time in the garden with my houseplants. I'm a plant mom.

— Lily Gladstone

An optimistic gardener is one who believes that whatever goes down must come up.

— Leslie Hall

“Coorie gardens all have a place that encourages reflection and peacefulness.”

— Gabriella Bennett

I actually have a punching bag right outside in my garden.

— Millie Bobby Brown

Growing your own garden is way less expensive than going out shopping and eating.

— Anna Getty

Work without contemplation is never enough.

— Douglas V. Steere

Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

— Thomas Jefferson

NO PROCESSED FOODS! Natural is best. Straight from the garden. Avoid the tins.

— Natalie Cook

I just go in my back garden. It's the only place where people don't come and bother you.

— Boy George

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease…

— Arthur Young

Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.

— James Allen

You can put a gardener behind the wheel, but you can't keep her eyes off the landscape.

— Janet Macunovich

It is a source of happiness to see the elderly working in their garden or looking from their windows! It is so…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

In looking back we remember only the triumphant consummations of each season. Failures and frustrations are forgotten; garden-memories are as perfect as…

— Patience Strong

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the…

— Kate Morton

I go forth to seek To seek and claim the lovely magic garden Where grasses softly sigh and Muses speak.

— Anna Akhmatova

It was soon evident in my lodgings that I had become a dangerous lunatic, and there would be nothing left to destroy…

— Henry Peach Robinson

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a…

— Eric Brown

The best ideas are those that really affect me emotionally - those are the ones you never forget. You think to yourself,…

— Tess Gerritsen

The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the…

— Oscar Wilde

A neighbour saw me, came round, and said I could earn another tenner if I did their garden. It wasn't long before…

— Gethin Jones

When we see a beautiful object, a beautiful garden, or a beautiful flower, let us think that there we behold a ray…

— Alphonsus Liguori

I returned to New Orleans and my problems with pari-mutuel windows and a dark-haired, milk-skinned wife from Martinique who went home with…

— Anonymous

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in…

— Patton Oswalt

The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was…

— Charles Darwin

When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small…

— H. P. Lovecraft

I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small…

— Maria Edgeworth

I think London is made up of tiny little pockets and villages, and lots of little sub-cultures. So, especially for an actor,…

— Scarlett Alice Johnson

[on going to Sunday school:] It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks…

— Anonymous

Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded…

— Tayeb Salih

if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have one. It will not be a pansy heaven or a fragile heaven…

— e. e. cummings

The most destructive criticism has not been able to dethrone Christ as the incarnation of perfect holiness. The waves of a tossing…

— Herrick Johnson

I got involved in Gateway National Park and just became fascinated with gardens.

— Alexandra Kerry

All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.

— Joseph Joubert

Madison Square Garden is one of the greatest arenas in the world.

— Yuta Watanabe

No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The very best garden is a new one, on virgin ground. Plants leap out of that spot.

— Janet Macunovich

Herbs are the friend of the physician and the pride of cooks.

— Charlemagne

Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

— Alexander Pope

Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are.

— Anonymous