Garden Quotes - Page 31

• I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it's all about.

  Julie Andrews

  Grandchildren, Play, Love To Read

  "Legendary actress Julie Andrews turns the page". Interview with Joy Sewing, www.chron.com. June 6, 2012.

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• A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so.

  Teresa of Avila

  Weed, Prayer, Practice

  Teresa of Avila (2004). “The Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself”, p.87, Penguin UK

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• Protein has been intensely over-represented on the plate. Now, the garden should be the main drag for main courses.

  Mario Batali

  Should, Protein, Drag

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• Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral teachings of all religions, gathering the most fragrant blossoms from the gardens of the world-faiths.

  Annie Besant

  Teaching, Gathering, World

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• I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then they take turns, they keep matching up with other people. Two people will weed down one row and switch over with two other people. It's in Vermont. I don't think I'd be very good at Weed Dating.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Weed, Thinking, Two

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• Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.

  Dan Buettner

  Exercise, People, Perspective

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• I have a lot of fruit trees and my own little vegetable garden and chickens. And every time I eat, I bless my food; I say I'm grateful for for it and let it nourish every part of my body.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Grateful, Vegetables, Tree

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• I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.

  Barbara Bush

  Want, Able, Stills

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• God is a God who has not given up on His people. If He wanted to give up, He would have given up back in the Garden of Eden.

  Kirk Cameron

  Giving Up, Eden, People

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• Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either. So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't.

  Kirk Cameron

  Gay, Men, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I know when you think about the South, you think about fried foods, but we eat a tremendous amount of vegetables. I have my own garden, so vegetables have always been a big part of my life. I love broccoli. I love fresh beets. It's not all about the fried chicken and the biscuits.

  Paula Deen

  Thinking, Vegetables, Beets

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• Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked with volleyball courts and unlocked bikes and wheat-grass shots and cereal dispensers and Haribo Gummi Bears and heated toilet seats and herb gardens and parking lots with cords hanging to plug in electric cars.

  Maureen Dowd

  Volleyball, Eye, Cereal

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• Protecting vital sources of renewal - unscathed marshes, healthy reefs, and deep-sea gardens - will provide hope for the future of the Gulf, and for all of us.

  Sylvia Earle

  Sea, Healthy, Renewal

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• Elton wanted a garden. They were building all afternoon while we were rehearsing. And then they built a fountain for Elton. And he said, I was only joking!

  Maurice Gibb

  Afternoon, Building, Fountain

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Winter, Italian, Alive

  "Elizabeth Gilbert Serves Up a New Classic". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. May 24, 2012.

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• I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance by working in daddy's garden.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Summer, Nice, Daddy

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• I have a garden in my backyard that's completely organic, which I'm very proud of.

  Ariana Grande

  Backyards, Proud

  "We Sent Two of Ariana Grande's Biggest Fans to Interview Her - Come See What Happened!". GLAMOUR interview, www.glamour.com. September 5, 2013.

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• I've got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else had gone somewhere exotic.

  Geri Halliwell

  Reading, Tree, Gone

  "Geri blossoms". Interview with Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2007.

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• 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

  Stupid, Writing, Piano

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• In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask why don't I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden and they abandon their values.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Past, Car

  "Zen and the art of protecting the planet" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2010.

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• 'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to the executives and stockholders of various businesses who will continue to profit from, for example, 'The Garden Party,' while the descendants of Katherine Mansfield will not.

  Mark Helprin

  Party, Example, Benefits

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• The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I'm in the city.

  Carolina Herrera

  Years, Cities, Firsts

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• I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Crazy, Believe, Thinking

  "Christmas with Christopher Hitchens". Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. December 20, 2007.

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• I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.

  David Hockney

  Taken, Kyoto, Degrees

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. 2004.

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• Embrace the faff. Stare out of the window. Bend paperclips. Stand in the middle of the room trying to remember what you came downstairs for. Pace. Drum your fingertips. Move papers around. Hum. Look at the garden.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Moving, Trying, Looks

  "The joy of simply faffing around" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2008.

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