Garden City Quotes

#1. One thinks one is going to the tropics and one finds oneself in the Chinese version of Welwyn Garden City.

Paul Theroux

#2. I think New Orleans is such a beautiful city. It looks like a fairytale when you walk through the French Quarter or the Garden District. There is such a lush sense of color, style, architecture - and the people themselves.

Anika Noni Rose

#3. I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.

Karen Gillan

#4. God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

Abraham Cowley

#5. Life isn't worth living unless you are young and surrounded by other young people in a beautiful cold garden perfumed by dirt and flowers and fallen leaves, gleaming in the string of lights, listening to the quiet city on the last fine night of the year.

Lauren Groff

#6. I'd like to have a spice garden some day," Rosemary said. "Out of the city, of course. If Guy ever gets a movie offer we're going to grab it and go live in Los Angeles. I'm a country girl at heart.

Ira Levin

#7. I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas.

Mireille Guiliano

#8. Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Alexander MacLaren

#9. Till your inner garden and your outer landscape will flourish

Gina Greenlee

#10. A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close about him, and the grime and soot descend upon him, he can still wander in his garden, does he but close his eyes.

Beverley Nichols

#11. Mexican homes as a rule are closed off to the world by high blank walls of yellowish masonry, topped with broken glass to discourage escaladores, or climbing burglars. The gardens and fountains and other delights are hidden, as in an Arab city.

Charles Portis

#12. 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

#13. The City that God is building for you and me, not even death can pass its gates! God's City of Tomorrow, His garden of the gods, will have no pain nor death nor sorrow!

David Berg

#14. All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on,
From the hector of France to the cully of Britain.

John Wilmot

#15. Beautiful city! ... spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age ... her ineffable charm ... Adorable dreamer, whose heart has been so romantic!

Matthew Arnold

#16. When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.

Livy

#17. I've been an Apple guy since the mid 80's and that's when I was like, "Boy, you guys really got me here. I know exactly what you're doing, right down to your price points."

Rob Corddry

#18. The whole inside of the Pyramid on the ground level on the New Earth is one great Garden within the City, a great City Park!-His Heavenly Fair in His Heaven so fair!

David Berg

#19. Real, but sometimes beautiful.

Nancy Garden

#20. As the soil of a garden is richer and as the harvest of the garden bears healthier nourishment from the decay of leaf matter and banana peel and egg shell and human hair and chicken bone and fireplace ash, so the accumulation of death in teh ground of a city implants therein energies and powers.

Tim Gilmore

#21. At that moment, Oliver realized that home is not a place, but rather, the people who love you.

Jodi Picoult

#22. God gives us a glimpse of what heaven will be like for the believer. It will have the characteristics of a happy home, a holy city, a glorious garden, and a beautiful bride. This staggers the imagination!

Billy Graham

#23. Many of the world's best-designed cities have been inspired by garden concepts.

Tom Turner

#24. The real world isn't a place, it's an excuse. It's a justification for not trying.

Jason Fried

#25. Introduced to this world in Llandyssul, Cardiganshire, Wales, November 14, 1843, I celebrated my first anniversary by landing at Castle Garden, in New York City.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

#26. When I had a look at the lights of Broadway by night, I said to my American friends : What a glorious garden of wonders this would be, to any who was lucky enough to be unable to read

G.K. Chesterton

#27. Everything is gratuitous, this garden, this city and myself. When you suddenly realize it, it makes you feel sick and everything begins to drift ... that's nausea.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#28. The face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.

Rohinton Mistry

#29. I classify Sao Paolo this way: The Governor's Palace is the living room. The mayor's office is the dining room and the city is the garden. And the favela is the back yard where they throw the garbage.

Carolina Maria De Jesus

#30. I had to come up with a good excuse for why you had been gone for two weeks and thought 'traveling in another dimension' would probably raise a few eyebrows.

Chris Colfer

#31. Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite
Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love.
News from the humming city comes to it
It sound of funeral or of marriage bells.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#32. Mariacarla Boscono has taught me a lot, and I have been lucky enough to become good friends with so many amazing models.

Kendall Jenner

#33. The city mouse lives in a house, The garden mouse lives in a bower

Christina Rossetti

#34. My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at home in woodland as they are in a city.

Clive Anderson

#35. Two people, one city, different times; connected by a memoir. Can love exist in a city destined for decades of misery?

Ahmad Ardalan

#36. Planning a garden, park, building, or city shouldn't be done in an office.

Jack Dangermond