Garden Quotes - Page 30

• I was a tomboy running around in the garden. I used to play on a local cricket team. I grew up with all boy cousins, for the most part, and my brother. My mother was in the kind of late-sixties, early-seventies origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, "You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do."

  Felicity Jones

  Mother, Running, Cousin

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• All of us gardeners know that nothing comes out the way you planned. It's a different garden every year, and it's always sort of different from what you were thinking when you began. What it really means to be a good gardener is to work hard to produce an ecosystem that will have enough diversity, enough possibilities, so it's robust, and it's resilient, and it can change when the seasons change. And that kind of robust, unexpected, variable, messy system - that's what you want to create when you're having children, too.

  Alison Gopnik

  Children, Mean, Hard Work

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I guess we cut Michelle Obama's garden. You hear about that? The Democrats are distressed.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Cutting, Democrat

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• One reason we planted the White House vegetable garden was to set an example about what food can mean, but to also begin a broader conversation about how we're feeding our kids, what they know about the food that they eat, how they're taking care of themselves.

  Michelle Obama

  Mean, Kids, House

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I think it's the freedom, the undisciplined energy that's within us all - exactly what you feel when you enter the wild anywhere, or if you let your garden grow wild. Even if most of us don't want to admit it, there's a memory latent that grabs people in a profound way.

  John Matthews

  Memories, Thinking, People

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Grow a garden, give food away, resist the temptation to give into hate, change it up and try peacemaking for once, love your neighbor, love your enemy.

  Tripp York

  Hate, Love You, Giving

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I wouldn't want to live life in an untroubled garden, blissful and ignorant. I would want to get out into the world, and be a part of something. In a way I was born into the Garden of Eden, or as close as you can get in our world; I was born white, male, and in Palo Alto. I had it pretty kush.

  James Franco

  Live Life, Ignorant, World

  Source: i-d.vice.com

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• I'm interested in acting as much as I'm interested in gardening. I want to garden, eventually. I want to learn how to do a lot of things. I've always wanted to learn how to paint, too. I'd like to try everything, but music is my reason for living.

  Bradford Cox

  Trying, Acting, Reason

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• With the garden I planted for the Reina Sofia, each plant related to different celebrations along the calendar - Christmas with evergreen trees, Valentine's Day with roses, Halloween with pumpkins. All these symbols are so culturally loaded, but they are organic living entities - just like the fish in the tanks. They grow on their own. The symbolic ecosystem is growing without a narrative anymore. It's a physical and mental landscape.

  Pierre Huyghe

  Halloween, Rose, Tree

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The great achievement of Zen Buddhism, and all of its cultural expressions in painting or the tea ceremony or rock gardens, is a rejection of earlier Buddhist ideas which were dependent
  upon narrative - all the mythological creatures that populate the Buddhist galaxy. Zen insisted on the real located in nature.

  Diego Cortez

  Buddhist, Real, Buddhism

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have thought about posterity all my life. There isn't as much adventure and creative unfolding as there is in planting a garden and watching it grow. It's like watching the film grow, because you don't know what the seed of an idea is going to actually result in.

  Barbara Hammer

  Adventure, Creative, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love to have fun. I do my own shopping. I do my own yardwork. I like to garden. I like to fish. I like to golf. I'm an outdoorsman. I like to cook. But when I hit the football stadium, I click the switch, because I know I'm there for a job. I get in a whole different mindset when I enter the stadium. But once I leave I'm back to being a father, husband, a friend.

  Vince Wilfork

  Football, Fun, Husband

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I do think it's smart to see a marriage as "a garden and a gardener who constantly swap roles." You really have to switch from one to another. Being the gardener would be the more active role in the situation. Being a garden would be more passive. You've got to be both the one who gets help and the one that's helping. That's the circulation in a couple. You should switch from one position to another. I think it's good to be always aware that love can fade. There's something I really like about that sentence. It's as if love should be seen as work...because it is.

  Carla Bruni

  Couple, Smart, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Our children and grandchildren visit us regularly in the Élysée Palace . The little ones are constantly running around outside in the garden. The first time they were intimidated by this place, but now they move around here totally normally. I think it is important that people really live in this place.

  Emmanuel Macron

  Running, Children, Moving

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• I've heard that Oasis or Coldplay will sell tickets, but they can't sell records. They sold out Madison Square Garden in three hours. And they can't sell albums. I don't know what's going on.

  Jez Williams

  Hours

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There is snobbery in the idea that the modern cult of celebrity has not touched the lofty realm of letters. We are like visitors to a garden or flower show who wander the pathways and do not notice the beautiful flora but instead exchange murmurs about the appearance of the soil.

  Zia Haider Rahman

  Beautiful, Flower, Appearance

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Nowadays it's a big issue in Europe because you are forced to describe yourself by your culture, and you begin to forget about yourself, your identity. You're supposed to act in certain ways. You're limited. When you try to go outside the lines to go into some other garden, then you're blamed and stoned because it's like blasphemy. When we talk about culture, we have to see those two sides to it. When we ignore it, it's dangerous. When we talk about it too much, it's also dangerous. We have to have a moderate balance.

  Burhan Sonmez

  Being Yourself, Balance, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Friends are the flowers in the garden of life.

  Unknown

  Memories, Flower, Friendship Memories

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• Historically, women's voices were central to food narratives, yet they were marginalized, and what happened at the table, the kitchen, the garden, and the fields was silenced. I'm very interested in how food appears in the historical record and animates our understanding of the South. It provides texture both to the past and to our contemporary experience. My work is not about discovering new voices, but rather it encourages voices that have been silenced to come forward and speak a little louder.

  Marcie Cohen Ferris

  Past, Understanding, Historical

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you live in the South, you are often a very short distance from a garden, or even a farm owned by your family or by your neighbor's family. When I was a child, even though I grew up in an era of highly processed food, the grocery store sold local field peas, lima beans, tomatoes, and sweet potatoes. While there is a deep sense of place in the South - and the foods of this place - I don't want to present a pastoral vision of the contemporary South. The majority of Southerners cannot access fresh, local, affordable food.

  Marcie Cohen Ferris

  Sweet, Children, Distance

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I already achieved my dream by fighting at Madison Square Garden for my second pro fight. I felt like I won the world title already, and I only had two professional fights. Madison Square Garden stands alone as far as boxing venues are concerned, and I dream about going back there again.

  Ricky Hatton

  Dream, Fighting, Boxing

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee; I went to college in New Orleans before moving to New York City for graduate school. Both sets of my grandparents grew up in rural Mississippi and brought a lot of agrarian knowledge to Memphis, which is an urban center in the South. Both sets had amazing backyard gardens. My paternal grandfather, practically every inch of available space was green.

  Bryant Terry

  Moving, School, College

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• All communities, and low-income communities especially because of food insecurity and lack of access to healthy foods, need more farmers markets, need more community gardens and urban farms. It would be great if people living in communities had the tools and resources to grow food in their own backyard - community-based food systems.

  Bryant Terry

  People, Community, Healthy

  "MoJo Video: Bryant Terry’s Vegan Soul Kitchen". Interview With Brittney Andres, www.motherjones.com. April 10, 2009.

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• Because we're becoming such an urban nation, we're going to need to be producing so much more food in cities. These institutions have members, obviously. They have the resources to start projects like urban farms and gardens, teaching tools, and the ability to educate their members so that they can then go home and start their own urban gardens. I just really think that faith-based institutions can take the lead in creating community-based food systems, and I'd really like to see that happen.

  Bryant Terry

  Teaching, Home, Thinking

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• Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives.

  Diane Ackerman

  Boston, House, Pet

  Diane Ackerman (2014). “The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us”, p.62, W. W. Norton & Company

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