Garden Quotes - page 25

I wouldn't rule out L.A. life, but I love England. I have a lovely house and nice garden, I walk my kids to school - family is most important to me. (Stephen Graham)
In London I had pear trees in my back garden, so I'd make my own pear and green tomato chutney. View quote
Stephen Moyer
I have raised beds, perennial beds, cut flower beds. I have an island on a pond that's just covered in peonies. I have an herb garden, tons of vegetables, raspberries. I have everything. I'm a green guy. View quote
Steve Zahn
So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out. View quote
Samuel E. Morison
My first job ever was working a ski lift when I was 16. I also worked at a garden center, which I loved. I did that for two and a half years. View quote
Sara Canning
Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you? View quote
Scott Reed
President Obama has expressed his commitment to responsible stewardship of our land, water, and other natural resources. And one way of restoring the land to its natural condition is what we are doing here today - breaking pavement for the People's Garden. View quote
Thomas Vilsack
People think that because of my act that I must have a really busy mind and I must be driven. I really am not. I quite like going outside and looking at spiders on a hedge in my garden and stuff. View quote
Tim Vine
In 'Garden Party' or '40 Days and 40 Nights,' I played characters who people don't necessarily like; I just find some humanity in them. View quote
Vinessa Shaw
The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him. View quote
W. H. Davies
I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died. (Richard Diran)
The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte. View quote
Vera Nazarian
Joe Frazier's life didn't start with Ali. I was a Golden Gloves champ. Gold medal in Tokyo '64. Heavyweight champion of the world long before I fought Ali in the Garden. View quote
Joe Frazier
A garden is the best alternative therapy. View quote
Germaine Greer
A garden is a kinetic work of art, not an object but a process, open-ended, biodegradable, nurturant, like all women's artistry. A garden is the best alternative therapy. View quote
Germaine Greer
Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work. View quote
Jeanne Moreau
The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world. View quote
Michael Pollan
Ripe vegetables were magic to me. Unharvested, the garden bristled with possibility. I would quicken at the sight of a ripe tomato, sounding its redness from deep amidst the undifferentiated green. To lift a bean plant's hood of heartshaped leaves and discover a clutch of long slender pods handing underneath could make me catch my breath. View quote
Michael Pollan
Embrace the faff. Stare out of the window. Bend paperclips. Stand in the middle of the room trying to remember what you came downstairs for. Pace. Drum your fingertips. Move papers around. Hum. Look at the garden. View quote
Tom Hodgkinson
If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as Schopenhauer called it, appeared in the shape of the serpent. This capitalistic monster awakens in Adam and Eve the possibility that things could be better. Instantly, they are cast out of the garden and condemned to a life of toil, drudgery, and pain. Wants supplanted needs, and things have been going downhill ever since. View quote
Tom Hodgkinson
I danced with the London Festival at Covent Garden. I'm a ballerina by trade; I'm a ballerina who sings by the way. (Jane Seymour)
A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
No garden is without its weeds. View quote
Thomas Fuller
My garden, by the sea. View quote
Stefan Szczesny
True lovers will be able to enter the garden of beauty without fear of being judged. They will no longer be two bodies and two souls meeting, but a single fountain out of which pours the true water of life. View quote
Paulo Coelho