Gentlemen Gardeners Quote by William Shakespeare

Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.

— William Shakespeare

“I stood like Adam in his lonely garden On that first morning, shaken out of sleep, Rubbing his eyes, listening, parting the leaves, Like…

— Mary Oliver

“the old stories were right, she thought, and man had been first made from a handful of dust, here was Adam himself: all mud,…

— Sarah Perry

“An old man hobbled by, his prescription bag death-gripped between his gnarly hand and the top of his walker. He glared at Adam, or…

— Harlan Coben

“When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?”

— John Ball

“Billy ... was little more than a sort of upright barbarian ... as Adam presumably might have been [in Eden].”

— Herman Melville

“Adam was chosen. Of”

— Tahereh Mafi

“The grave of Adam! How touching it was, here in a land of strangers, far away from home, & friends, & all who cared…

— Mark Twain

“Adam and Eve used to walk with Me in the garden, before their expulsion from Eden. I want you to walk with Me in…

— Sarah Young

“if anything, you may think of me as Adam without his Eve, cast out of the Garden with no hope of ever returning.”

— Michael R. Hicks

“The enormity of the world grew and grew inside Adam, and he didn’t know if he could hold it. He was just a boy.…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“A man is what he makes of himself, boy. I don't know you from Adam, but I sure as hell know you can do…

— Grace Callaway