Garden Quotes
2106 Garden quotes by 1278 unique authors
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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.
— Alexander MacLaren
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It would be the greatest delight of the seraphs to pile up sand on the seashore or to pull weeds in a garden for all…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
— George Herbert
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Do not sit long with a sad friend. When you go to a garden do you look at the weeds? Spend more time with the…
— Unknown Author
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To be one woman, truly, wholly, is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds.
— Kate Braverman
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It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive…
— Diane Arbus
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You have to temper the iron. Every hardship is an opportunity that you are given, an opportunity to grow. To grow is the sole purpose…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other…
— Oscar Wilde
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Child development: Most damaging course of action is attempting to keep children from experience or protect them from pain, for it is this time that…
— Leo Buscaglia
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When your heart becomes the grave of your secrets, that desire of yours will be gained more quickly. The prophet said that anyone who keeps…
— Unknown Author
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For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision" measurement…
— Steven Chu
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How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty. If we are truly each other's…
— Bonnie Raitt
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We have dominated and overruled nature, and from now on the earth is ours, a kitchen garden until we learn to make our own chlorophyll…
— Lewis Thomas
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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
— Charles Baudelaire
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We can begin by doing small things at the local level, like planting community gardens or looking out for our neighbors. That is how change…
— Grace Lee Boggs
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May you become as the waves of one sea, stars of the same heaven, fruits adorning the same tree, roses of one garden in order…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking…
— Unknown Author
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I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping…
— Uma Thurman
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No, I'm putting it away, trying to buy a house for my family. The goal is to use the money to move into a big…
— Ewan McGregor
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The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow.
— Bruce Lee
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It took me a long time to get used to the reality that my grandmother had passed away. Wherever I was, in the house, in…
— Unknown Author
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All who ask receive, those who seek find, and to those who knock it shall be opened. Therefore, let us knock at the beautiful garden…
— John of Damascus
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The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look down into the…
— Doris Lessing
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No bought potpourri is so pleasant as that made from ones own garden, for the petals of the flowers one has gathered at home hold…
— Unknown Author
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