Garden In Winter Quotes

#1. A garden in winter is the absolute test of the true gardener.

Rosemary Verey

#2. And when wind and winter harden
All the loveless land,
It will whisper of the garden,
You will understand.

Oscar Wilde

#3. I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for me, although by the time August rolls around and my roses have black spot, I need the break winter provides.

Siri Hustvedt

#4. When you have one million dollars, you're a lucky person. When you have 10 million dollars, you've got trouble, a lot of headaches.

Jack Ma

#5. That living has no value - it's what you do with life that gives it worth.

Michael J. Sullivan

#6. I don't talk to the groupies. I talk to nice, upstanding women. The groupies don't get my attention. It's the women that I like.

Drake

#7. I've been a dweller on the plains, have sighed when summer days were gone; No more I'll sigh; for winter here Hath gladsome gardens of his own.

Dorothy Wordsworth

#8. Each year the big garden grew smaller and Jane - who grew flowers by choice, not corn or stringbeans - worked at the vegetables more than I did. Each winter I dreamed crops, dreamed marvels of canning ... and each summer I largely failed. Shamefaced, I planted no garden at all.

Donald Hall

#9. And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.

Rumi

#10. Jaime, there is no secret. There is no magic. There is no way to know what the future holds. The point is that you're willing to take a chance.

Melanie Harlow

#11. granite headland, drawing ever closer, looks like an unholy tooth, something black and dangerous,

Anthony Doerr

#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. She went back down to the garden, feeling like a queen, hearing the birds sing - this was in winter - seeing the sky all golden, the sun in the trees, flowers among the shrubs, bewildered, wild, giddy with inexpressible rapture.

Victor Hugo

#14. From December to March, there are for many of us three gardens - the garden outdoors, the garden of pots and bowls in the house, and the garden of the mind's eye.

Katharine Sergeant Angell White

#15. It was humbling to admit that I wasn't living the simple life because I was spiritually committed to it. I was living the simple life because I was poor.

Paul David Tripp

#16. So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.

Rita Mae Brown

#17. I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.

G-Eazy

#18. Autumn in my garden is when trees give their tickertape welcome to winter.

Densey Clyne

#19. If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.

Saint John Chrysostom

#20. (When God said, "Be fruitful and multiply" [Genesis 1:28], he wasn't giving math homework.)

Gregory K. Popcak

#21. She belongs to the winter that is past, to the darkness that is over, and has no part or lot in the life I shall lead for the next six months. Oh, I could dance and sing for joy that the spring is here! What a ressurection of beauty there is in my garden, and of brightest hope in my heart.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#22. Freedom is not a self-preserving gift. It has to be earned, and it has to be protected.

Boyd K. Packer

#23. All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar.

Helen Hayes

#24. If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.

Adam Hasner

#25. I loved to walk in her garden after dinner; it felt alive, even in the winter. She always told me that rosemary grows in the garden of a strong woman. Hers were like trees.

Erica Bauermeister

#26. As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom.

Katharine Sergeant Angell White

#27. He could have set fire to it, the garden was dry enough, and burned it clean - privet, vines, and weeds; but he waited in his rooms through the winter instead, weeping and dreaming.

William H Gass

#28. Do they believe their cause so just that they are above and beyond the truth?

Wally Hickel

#29. To go into the garden in its snowed-up state is like going into a bath of purity. The first breath on opening the door is so ineffably pure that it makes me gasp, and I feel a black and sinful object in the midst of all the spotlessness.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#30. O grant me a house by the beach of a bay,
Where the waves can be surly in winter, and play
With the sea-weed in summer, ye bountiful powers!
And I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray,
For a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

Andrew Lang

#31. You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

Evelyn Waugh

#32. Oh, dear child, happiness is a garden, but one has to plant the seed and endure the cold winter.

Zohreh Ghahremani

#33. 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

#34. Winter garden,
the moon thinned to a thread,
insects singing.

Matsuo Basho