Garden Quotes - Page 21

• It was like a miracle. I'm just feeling fabulous. What's incredible is someone has given your life back. I'm out in the garden today. This time last year I was looking out a window at a hospital.

  Mary Travers

  Years, Miracle, Feelings

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• The less help you have in a garden the more yours it is.

  Nikki Yanofsky

  Helping

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• I don't make proper flower arrangements; mine just grow, like the garden.

  Tasha Tudor

  Flower, Grows, Mines

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• Of all our sunny world, i wish only for a garden sofa where a cat is sunning itself

  Edith Södergran

  Cat, Wish, World

  Edith Södergran (1984). “Complete Poems”, Dufour Editions

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• Can anyone be so foolish as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads, or places where things may be hanging downwards, trees growing backwards, or rain falling upwards? Where is the marvel of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon if we are to allow of a hanging world at the Antipodes?

  Lactantius

  Rain, Believe, Fall

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• If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden; and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.

  Rumi

  Fire, Rose, Fuel

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

  Thomas Sowell

  Eden, Late, Trade

  Thomas Sowell (2006). “Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• In looking back we remember only the triumphant consummations of each season. Failures and frustrations are forgotten; garden-memories are as perfect as garden-hopes.

  Patience Strong

  Memories, Frustration, Perfect

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• Success and failure, triumph and disaster. That is the rhythm of life in the garden.

  Patience Strong

  Rhythm Of Life, Triumph, Success And Failure

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• There is a great power within that when used in beauty and immaculate purity can cure and heal and cause miracles. When you use it it spreads like a magic garden and when you do not use it it recedes from you.

  Lord Buckley

  Miracle, Magic, Use

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• Whoever has not learned to let Nature have her way is not fit for a gardener, or, for that matter, for a contented soul. A garden makes all our senses swim with pleasure.

  William Lawson

  Swim, Soul, Matter

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• When anyone hurts us, my wife and I sit in our Japanese sand garden and drink iced tea. There are five stone in the garden - for sky, wind, fire, water, and earth. We sit and think of five of the nicest things we can about the person who hurt us. If he hurts us a second time, we do the same thing. The third time, we light a candle, and he is, for us, dead.

  Red Skelton

  Hurt, Thinking, Wind

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• But God has the most fun with artists and writers: he inflames them with the desire to rival his own creations, then douses their overheated ambitions with a cold spray from the garden hose of reality. If they persist, he slams them to the ground and tweaks them on the proboscis for good measure. A fortunate few break free and prosper; the others lament the day they didn't become bank clerks.

  Rick Bayan

  Fun, Ambition, Artist

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• I like to assume that since I drive a car and maintain a respectable credit rating and rarely murder anyone and bury them in the back garden unless they really deserve it, that the fact that I hear voices wont unduly disturb anyone.

  Robin McKinley

  Voice, Car, Credit

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• Some people like to garden, some people like motorcycle riding... my hobby is winning.

  Jack Passion

  Winning, People, Motorcycle

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• My first memory as a child growing up is of playing in the gardens, the mosque is really a gigantic garden, probably the biggest in all of East Jerusalem. Our house was about 100 meters from the mosque.

  Rula Jebreal

  Children, Growing Up, Memories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My whole childhood was about being in the garden. It wasn't really a religious place to me. The love I felt there... was in contradiction with what I saw in the streets. It was a different world.

  Rula Jebreal

  Religious, Childhood, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• John Bunyan, while he had a surpassing genius, would not condescend to cull his language from the garden of flowers; but he went into the hayfield and the meadow, and plucked up his language by the roots, and spoke out in the words that the people used in their cottages.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Flower, Roots, People

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 3: Sermons 107-164”, p.103, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The CEO of the Olive Garden blames his company's low profits on Obamacare - which is odd because most people won't eat at the Olive Garden until they have health insurance.

  Conan O'Brien

  Obamacare, People, Olives

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• One does not imagine the presence of a dog in the Garden of Eden, for had there been, no doubt he would have given adequate protection to his mistress and saved her descendants from all subsequent trouble.

  Kate Sanborn

  Dog, Eden, Doubt

  Kate Sanborn (1916). “Educated dogs of to-day”

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• A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Teacher, Party, Book

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• It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Eden, Apples, Tree

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• The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden of Eden were ordained by God and were a necessary part of their-and our-earthly experience. President Howard W. Hunter, then a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, taught: "We came to mortal life to encounter resistance. It was part of the plan for our eternal progress. Without temptation, sickness, pain, and sorrow, there could be no goodness, virtue, appreciation for well-being, or joy."

  Daniel K Judd

  Appreciation, Pain, Writing

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• Cease looking for flowers! There blooms a garden in your own home.
  While you look for trinkets
  The treasure house awaits you in your own being.

  Rumi

  Flower, Home, House

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• Of all our sunny world I wish only for a garden sofa where a cat is sunning itself. There I should sit with a letter at my breast, a single small letter. That is what my dream looks like.

  Edith Södergran

  Dream, Cat, Wish

  Edith Södergran (1984). “Complete Poems”, Dufour Editions

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