Gardener Quotes

There are several ways to lay out a little garden; the best way is to get a gardener. (Karel Čapek)

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

Jean Cocteau

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

Bertrand Russell

I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.

Ben Stiller

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.

Suzy Bogguss

But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.

Thomas Jefferson

He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.

Friedrich Hayek

From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Trust me, Clara Vere de Vere, From yon blue heavens above us bent The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

I am very glad to hear that the Gardener has saved so much of the St. foin seed, and that of the India Hemp. Make the most you can of both, by sowing them again in drills... Let the ground be well prepared, and the Seed (St. foin) be sown in April. The Hemp may be sown any where.

George Washington

No gardener, no garden! (Stephen Covey)

Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden that it may not pass away!

Rudyard Kipling

You take souls for vegetables.... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them.

Jean-Paul Sartre

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

George Balanchine

What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.

Dan DeCarlo

We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can water weeds.

Josh Radnor

My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself.

Lillie Langtry

I have always wanted to be a gardener, and I love the time I spend in my garden.

Pawan Kalyan

So high do these plants stand in the favour of the Chinese gardener, that he will cultivate them extensively, even against the wishes of his employer; and, in many instances, rather leave his situation than give up the growth of his favourite flower.

Robert Fortune

The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.

Ken Thompson

I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically. (John Lennon)

Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds: grow.

Henry Morton Stanley

Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.

Louisa May Alcott

He must have been a gardener that cared a lot Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop. But now it all looks strange, it's funny how one insect Can damage so much grain.

Elton John

And we are so amazed, we're crippled and we're dazed. A gardener like that one, no one can replace. And I've been knocking, but no one answers. And I've been knocking most all the day. Oh, and I've been calling Oh, "Hey, Hey, Johnny" "Can't you come out to play?"

Elton John

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