"A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's…" — Rumer Godden

"A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy."

— Rumer Godden

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16 Quotes by Rumer Godden

Rumer Godden has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.
As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests…
Memory is the only friend of grief.
A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries,…
If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that…
The stitch of a book is its words.
For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written ... she is rather like…
There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an…
It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen;…
I loved Mr. Darcy far more than any of my own husbands.
A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn…
I suppose the more you have to do, the more you learn to organize and concentrate-or else get fragmented into…

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More Cheer Quotes

This quote is filed under Cheer Quotes, one of 689 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all… — Lance Armstrong
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim… — Isaac Asimov
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. — Marcus Aurelius
I find it kind of disturbing when people cheer when someone just gets stabbed brutally. — Rick Baker
I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up. — Lynda Barry
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of… — Scott Adams
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it… — Henry Ward Beecher
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. — William Blake
Exuberance is beauty. — William Blake
My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man… — Aeschylus
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to… — Tom Bodett

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