Dread Quote by John Irving

“This terrible smallness of men was bigger than him, bigger than anything.”

— Dennis Lehane

I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent…

— Reginald Farrer

“It was inconsiderate not to have a gardener if, like Dr Ranta, you were in a well-paid white-collar job. It was a social duty…

— Alexander McCall Smith

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

— Vita Sackville-West

“Her thoughts rambled, but she wasn’t daydreaming. Her senses were sharp. She caught the fall of every leaf in the garden, the rustle of…

— Kristin Cashore

“Some are called to be gardeners of souls, and she'd tended hers with the blind dedication that accepted the floods and famine along with…

— Karen White

She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.

— Ann Brashares

“For a garden is a mistress, and gardening is a blend of all the arts, and if it is not the death of me,…

— Beverley Nichols

“Mistress Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With Silver Bells, and Cockle Shells, And marigolds all in a row.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“He preferred to not think of his mother as having hips. He preferred to not think of her as a woman at all, more…

— Christopher Moore

He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Despairing of human relationships (people were so difficult), she often went into her garden and got from her flowers a peace which men and…

— Virginia Woolf