Garden Quotes - page 7

My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery. (Allen Toussaint)
I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails. View quote
Amanda Donohoe
I walk my dogs. I garden a little. I play a bit of tennis. Basically when I have spare time I'm making music. View quote
Bill Mumy
I call myself, 'The Estee Lauder of the garden world.' I'm my own little conglomerate. View quote
C. Z. Guest
I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend. View quote
C. Z. Guest
There's great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you're taking some time away from turning the pages, answering your emails, talking to people on the phone, and you're letting your brain process whatever is stuck up in there. View quote
Chellie Pingree
I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first. View quote
Conrad Veidt
My family lived off the land and summer evening meals featured baked stuffed tomatoes, potato salad, corn on the cob, fresh shelled peas and homemade ice cream with strawberries from our garden. With no air conditioning in those days, the cool porch was the center of our universe after the scorching days. View quote
David Mixner
One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning? View quote
Francis Cabot Lowell
Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle. View quote
Francis Cabot Lowell
As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating. (Gary Hamel)
Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden. View quote
George Ball
But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life. View quote
George Cadbury
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. View quote
George Edward Moore
I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden. View quote
Hayley Mills
No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience. View quote
J. Carter Brown
I recycle. I have a house in the south of France and I have a small garden. My name is Dujardin - 'from the garden.' I grow carrots, peppers, strawberries, green beans, and things for salads, but there are lots of wild boars all around and they steal the food. View quote
Jean Dujardin
Certainly if I were to think in terms of a field that would have required a different mode of education, I think I would have leaned in the direction of being a therapist. And without the education, or a different kind of education, I think my first choice would be a landscape architect. I love to garden. View quote
Jill McCorkle
I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.' View quote
John Paul DeJoria
If we descended from space aliens, that's just as viable as Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, as far as I'm concerned. View quote
Jon Gries
I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour. (Jacqueline Bisset)
I had a ton of animals; I had a goat growing up, a bunch of rabbits, a vegetable garden. View quote
Kelli Williams
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them. View quote
Liberty Hyde Bailey
As a female pilot, the sacred rose garden in my heart is the motherland's blue sky. View quote
Liu Yang
They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh! View quote
Louise Jameson