Garden Quotes - page 6

He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, "Life is so beautiful." ... Yes, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important. (Mario Puzo)
... and I went into the garden and lay down and looked at the stars in the sky and made myself negligible. View quote
Mark Haddon
The sense of impending disaster hung over the garden like a chandelier. View quote
Antal Szerb
Faith is not simply a private matter, or something we practice once a week at church. Rather, it should have a contagious effect on the broader world. Jesus used these images to illustrate His kingdom.: a sprinkle of yeast causing the whole loaf to rise, a pinch of salt preserving a slab of meat, the smallest seed in the garden growing into a great tree in which birds of the air come to nest. View quote
Philip Yancey
If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path. View quote
Fran Drescher
I think infatuation is like a garden. If tended and cared for, it grows into love. If neglected or abused it dies. The only way to have eternal love is to never let your heart forget what it's like to live without it. -Vane. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Truth is rare fruit in garden of murder. View quote
Earl Derr Biggers
I love the sunrise, as I am definitely a morning person! It's a great time to get up and have a coffee in the garden by myself before everybody wakes up. View quote
Bianca Balti
Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden. View quote
Dan Buettner
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. View quote
George Balanchine
When bad things happen, it's the time when you get to work in the garden and sort out the pots from the weeds. (Elizabeth Hurley)
A garden is a friend you can visit any time. View quote
Kakuzo Okakura
We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves. View quote
Leonora Carrington
The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it. View quote
Louis de Bernieres
These wrestlers aren't organized. They have no union, no pension and no insurance. You meet wrestler after wrestler who sold out Madison Square Garden ten years ago, basically running on fumes today. There's a lot of drama there. View quote
Darren Aronofsky
...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being. View quote
Anita Desai
I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions. View quote
Ian Hamilton Finlay
My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public. View quote
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it. View quote
Ian Hamilton Finlay
But I believe that there are marriages where you can have your pool table and she can have her scrapbooking room or garden or whatever it is. But when everyone has what they want, it's not funny. There's no conflict. View quote
Brad Garrett
Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either. So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't. (Kirk Cameron)
What can my enemies do to me? I have in my breast both my heaven and my garden. If I travel they are with me, never leaving me. Imprisonment for me is a chance to be alone with my Lord. To be killed is martyrdom and to be exiled from my land is a spiritual journey. View quote
Ibn Taymiyyah
Sins are like chains and locks preventing their perpetrator from roaming the vast garden of tawhid and reaping the fruits of righteous actions. View quote
Ibn Taymiyyah
I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick. View quote
Cy Twombly
Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage. View quote
Thomas Kinkade