David Hobson Quotes

#1. No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.

Henry Ward Beecher

#2. I've always felt that you can't do much wrong in a garden providing you enjoy it.

David Hobson

#3. Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.

Gilles Deleuze

#4. Society advances further on the backs of the living than it does on the backs of its dead.

Allan McLeod

#5. 98: I love you because I would NEVER spend three hours making this book of 100 reasons why I love you for anyone else.

L.A. Casey

#6. Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it

Stephen Harper

#7. To boldly grow where no one has groan before.

David Hobson

#8. You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn't any brains.

J.D. Salinger

#9. If there's one thing I can say about my garden, it can always surprise me.

David Hobson

#10. Yup, gardening and laughing are two of the best things in life you can do to promote good health and a sense of well being.

David Hobson

#11. My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers; if they don't they're weeds.

David Hobson

#12. I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps ... It just feels right.

David Hobson

#13. According to my mother, I was a fiction writer before I'd written any ficton, by wich she meant not only that I invented things, or made things up, but that I prefered this kind of fantasising or pure imagining to what other people generally liked - she meant reality, of course.

John Irving

#14. I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

David Hobson