Garden Quotes · Page 9

In the garden the door is always open into the holy.

— May Sarton

As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in…

— Katharine Sergeant Angell White

I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that…

— E. P. Thompson

I have two garden parties a year to avoid going out to dinner.

— Tom Stoppard

The journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath your feet. NOTE: Other translations exist, such as:Great trees grow from the smallest…

— Laozi

A garden is a thing of beauty and a job forever.

— Richard Briers

You have to temper the iron. Every hardship is an opportunity that you are given, an opportunity to grow. To grow is…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get…

— Helena Rutherfurd Ely

Loving behavior contributes to the group at the expense of the individual. Competition contributes to the survival of the individual at the…

— Marilyn vos Savant

In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by the coconuts of wakefulness.

— Chogyam Trungpa

Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror…

— Mary Oliver

To try to convey literally what the Garden of Eden was like is meaningless. What matters is its symbolic function.

— David Farr

Hordes of people [are] born, who live, yet who have done absolutely nothing to advance the race one iota. Their lives are…

— Margaret Sanger

I never promised you a rose garden.

— Traian Basescu

Whenever you see confusion, you can be sure that something is wrong. Disorder in the world implies that something is out of…

— Anonymous

... there was a part of me that wanted to be liked, and despite all my years of reporting, I never quite…

— Andrea Mitchell

I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day.…

— Jane Austen

In a twilight garden, when a brown nightingale starts singing, what is left to a blonde chicken is to remain silent.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all…

— Alice Hoffman

Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in,…

— Josh Billings

To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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

— Millie Bobby Brown

In mathematical quarters, the regular division of the plane has been considered theoretically. ... [Mathematicians] have opened the gate leading to an…

— M. C. Escher

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