Best Gardens Proverbs
314 Gardens quotes by 241 unique authors
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They all have tired mouths and bright seamless souls. And a longing (as for sin) sometimes haunts their dreams. They are almost all alike; in…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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He will grow up into one of those people who lean back to smile and jump so easily it looks like slow motion and steer…
— Hilary McKay
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I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I travel in gardens and bedrooms, basements and attics, around corners, through doorways and windows, along sidewalks, over carpets, down drainpipes, in the sky, with…
— Tom Robbins
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This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast! For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself.
— Rumi
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...some people might think our lives dull and uneventful, but it does not seem so to us. ...it is not travel and adventure that make…
— D.E. Stevenson
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Other people have shrubbery in their gardens. You have a bottomless pit.
— Cassandra Clare
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That's exactly why nature always trumps gardens. Gardens are just reality pruned of chaos. What doesn't work you rip out.
— Justina Chen
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The Garden En robe de parade. - Samain Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a…
— Ezra Pound
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Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do…
— Harper Lee
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We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a truth that can…
— R A Salvatore
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Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.
— William Shakespeare
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I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming…
— Oscar Wilde
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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.
— George Lois
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There is absolutely no such thing as reading but by a candle. We have tried the affectation of a book at noon-day in gardens, and…
— Charles Lamb
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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed,…
— John Galsworthy
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You, Beloved, who are all the gardens I have ever gazed at, longing. An open window in a country house-- , and you almost stepped…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Under the ground seep the toxins of the population that lives above. If you have to, you will eat roots and earthworms. It is always…
— Francesca Lia Block
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Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love…
— William Butler Yeats
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Cemeteries in Bohemia are like gardens. The graves are covered with grass and colourful flowers. Modest tombstones are lost in the greenery. When the sun…
— Milan Kundera
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... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness…
— Marianne Moore
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He got out of bed and peeped through the blinds. To the east and opposite to him gardens and an apple-orchard lay, and there in…
— Walter de La Mare
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Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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