Gardener Quotes · Page 3

True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.

— May Sarton

Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than Emperor's.

— Mary Cantwell

One of the most important things a gardener does is look. The rewards are immeasurable.

— Elsa Bakalar

I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden?

— Hilary Mantel

Honey, what's the point of being in the suburbs if you're not going to f**k a gardener?

— Samantha Jones

Where there's no gardener, there's no garden.

— Stephen Covey

'The Gardener' is more than a marvellous collection of images by a master photographer.

— John Burnside

“Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.”

— Amit Kalantri

Fragrance, whether strong or delicate, is a highly subjective matter, and one gardener's perfume is another gardener's stink.

— Katharine Sergeant Angell White

If you're a gardener you don't need a gym. [...] You're always carrying large sacks of manure all over.

— Michael Caine

People who are close to God cultivate a personal intimacy with Him like a good gardener cultivates beautiful flowers.

— Charles R. Swindoll

The very best relationship has a gardener and a flower. The gardener nurtures and the flower blooms.

— Carole Radziwill

I'm not much of a gardener really. I'm hopeless, so I don't really get involved with it that much.

— George Clarke

What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really like to get…

— Jeffrey Donovan

As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter.

— Robert Breault

The best gardener is a baby killer. Baby insects are much easier to kill than adults, and haven't yet developed the big…

— Janet Macunovich

A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close…

— Beverley Nichols

“Like the gardener, a leader must take responsibility for what he cultivates; he must mind his work, try to repel enemies, preserve…

— Nelson Mandela

We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound…

— W. Somerset Maugham

All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by…

— Wendell Berry

Then there are those who plant. they endure storms and all the many vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest. But,…

— Paulo Coelho

The great Master Gardener, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in a wonderful providence, with his own hand, planted me here,…

— Samuel Rutherford

Sooner or later every gardener must face the fact that certain things are going to die on him. It is a temptation…

— Eleanor Perenyi

As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being a teenager is the worst thirty years of your life. But it all changes after that. You get a great car,…

— Christopher Titus

At school I was called Fred, which is my middle name. At that time, Fred was considered to be a bit of…

— Alan Titchmarsh

For me, Savannah's resistance to change was its saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of…

— John Berendt

If you're a gardener, or creating a garden you're clearly looking to the future. You have a sense of your own future…

— Amanda Marshall

I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Look, little currant bush, I am the gardener here, and I know what I want you to be. I didn’t intend you…

— Hugh B. Brown

On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

As I said in my last book, birds are mean. They're the only pet that, when they escape, the owners are relieved.…

— Adam Carolla

We must be kind and gentle gardeners with people and nature.

— Anonymous

One becomes a gardener by becoming a gardener.

— Allen Lacy

There are several ways to lay out a little garden; the best way is to get a gardener.

— Karel Capek

It used to be bros before hoes but now you're the gardener

— Chris Time Steele

Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.

— Vita Sackville-West

I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.

— John Lennon

Nature soon takes over if the gardener is absent.

— Penelope Hobhouse

Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?

— Bill Vaughan