Garden Quotes

Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.

Clare Ansberry, The Women of Troy Hill

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Kahlil Gibran

The journey to the cross began long before. As the echo of the crunching of the fruit was still sounding in the garden, Jesus was leaving for Calvary.

Max Lucado, "And the Angels were Silent the Final Week of Jesus".

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.

William Shakespeare

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Charles Baudelaire

However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.

Henry David Thoreau

I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.

Richard Diran

Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose - Garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind.

T. S. Eliot

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - Instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.

Dale Carnegie

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.

Buddha

A garden is evidence of faith. It links us with all the misty figures of the past who also planted and were nourished by the fruits of their planting.

Gladys Tabe

Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade.

Rudyard Kipling

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities, but to know that there is someone who, though distant, thinks and feels with us - - This makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

Trade - Offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.

Thomas Sowell, Editorial on Wal - Mart, 10 - Dec - 2003

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

If there is no gardener there is no garden.

Stephen R. Covey, First things First

After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

Mark Twain

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

Joseph Addison

The first thing a girl hopes for from the garden of love is at least one carat.

S. S. Biddle

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Joe Bob Briggs

Working in the garden... gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.

Ruth Stout

However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Henry David Thoreau

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

Henry David Thoreau

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

Elisabeth Kubler - Ross

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - This makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

Johann von Goethe

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master - Gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

James Allen

A good garden may have some weeds.

Thomas Fulle

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

Chinese Prove

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

English prove

Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

G. K. Chesterton