Top 100 Garden Of Quotes
#1. And so we stayed out in the garden of the old house until we couldn't kick a ball, laughing in the gathering twilight, making the most of the good weather and all the days that were left, our little game watched only by next door's cat, and every star in the heavens.
Tony Parsons
#2. Ever since his fall in the Garden of Eden, man has listened to his desires more than his reason.
Jerry Bridges
#3. For any scientist the real challenge is not to stay within the secure garden of the known but to venture out into the wilds of the unknown.
Marcus Du Sautoy
#5. But preserve your mistrust of the page, for a book is a fortress, a place of weeping, the key to a desert, a river that has no bridge, a garden of spears.
Sofia Samatar
#6. If you can't smell the fragrance
don't come into the garden of Love.
if you are unwilling to undress
don't enter into the stream of
Truth. Stay where you are, don't
come our way
Rumi
#7. To eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world,
Oscar Wilde
#8. Each time you shed tears, God gathers them to water the garden of your dreams.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#9. Loving behavior contributes to the group at the expense of the individual. Competition contributes to the survival of the individual at the expense of the group. In the garden of life, some people are more like flowers, and other people are more like weeds.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#11. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer ... then surely we are also permitted doubt.
Yann Martel
#12. Success is buried in the garden of failure.
Rick Wakeman
#13. Sins are like chains and locks preventing their perpetrator from roaming the vast garden of Tawheed and reaping the fruits of righteous actions.
Ibn Taymiyyah
#14. To beguile is to deceive or lead astray, as Lucifer beguiled Eve in the Garden of Eden.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#15. [W]hen they have opened a gap in the hedge or wall of Separation between the Garden of the Church and the Wildernes of the world, God hath ever broke down the wall it selfe, removed the Candlestick, &c. and made his Garden a Wildernesse, as at this day.
Roger Williams
#16. The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.
Anonymous
#17. Just what I need. My own personal shoulder devil, wearing black and smelling like the Garden of Eden.
Kim Harrison
#18. Love is a flower that grows in the garden of mind if we treat it with kindness, compassion, and joy.
Debasish Mridha
#19. Those with lives filled with laughter and sorrow,
Have no choice but to live between the two, in borrow.
Where is the green garden of love, that's infinite?
More than sorrow and laughter, plenty of fruits in it.
Rumi
#20. Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.
Thomas Sowell
#21. In the garden of gentle sanity,
May you be bombarded by the coconuts of wakefulness.
Chogyam Trungpa
#22. She plucked a rose and held it to her face. She hated the way roses smelled, their sweetness too fragile. She wanted a garden of evergreens. A garden of stones. A garden of swords.
Kiersten White
#23. We know our end
A packet of worm-seed, a garden of spent tissues.
Allen Tate
#24. Look, Samuel, I mean to make a garden of my land. Remember my name is Adam. So far I've had no Eden, let alone been driven out." "It's the best reason I ever heard for making a garden," Samuel exclaimed. He chuckled.
John Steinbeck
#25. AUTOSUGGESTION is the agency of control through which an individual may voluntarily feed his subconscious mind on thoughts of a creative nature, or, by neglect, permit thoughts of a destructive nature to find their way into this rich garden of the mind.
Napoleon Hill
#26. We lie on the blanket, our bare bodies basking in the sun like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Only our apples were bitten a long time ago, and we ate them too.
Henry Martin
#27. Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.
Jerry Falwell
#28. The poetry is the Earth, charming; The river, flowing from lofty mountains; Nature, a young woman and a heavenly plant with blossoming flowers, slinking in the garden of the mind.
Manmohan Acharya
#29. At the end; highest happiness will be, a white rose, in the garden of your eternal dreams.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#30. I have a garden of my own, But so with roses overgrown, And lilies, that you would it guess To be a little wilderness.
Andrew Marvell
#31. 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
#32. True chaos comes from the garden of your soul;
where the wild flowers grow
Matt Baker
#33. One cannot always keep an adder in one's breast to feed one, nor rise up every night to sow thorns in the garden of one's soul.
Oscar Wilde
#34. A person who takes a concrete place and convert it into a garden of flowers is a real magician!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#35. Negative self assertions are like weeds in the garden of your life. Cleanse your garden of any such weeds.
Sanchita Pandey
#36. It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#37. I believe ingratitude is the original sin. I believe if Adam and Eve had been grateful for the garden of Eden they had, they would not have been so focused on the one tree they didn't have.
Max Lucado
#38. If you look at the Bible and you look at Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, we all know who sinned first. Ladies, do you have to eat everything?
Daniel Tosh
#39. 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
#40. With each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden of literature.
P.G. Wodehouse
#41. In the garden of tabloid delight, there is always a clean towel and another song.
Lewis H. Lapham
#42. Thy Return is as another Sun to Heaven; a new Rose blooming in the Garden of the Soul.
Omar Khayyam
#43. Then I truly feel like a living being in the middle of this garden of the dead, I'm most definitely alive in here.
Audur Ava Olafsdottir
#44. The waking dreams of life as most people know them are spiritual experiences, but there is another order of spiritual experience and that's to be in the garden of the heart, in the perfect stillness, where the white light of eternity meets the white light of eternity.
Frederick Lenz
#45. A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.
W. Somerset Maugham
#46. In front of us there is an immense garden of words and non-words, a serre, that is, a greenhouse in which are preserved by my care so many things of speech you have given me while leaving me free to cultivate them.
Helene Cixous
#47. A phrase from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil came to mind: Two tears in a bucket. Motherfuck it.
Zane
#49. If we descended from space aliens, that's just as viable as Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, as far as I'm concerned.
Jon Gries
#50. In the Garden of Eden Adam saw the animals before he named them: in the traditional system, children named the animals before they saw them.1
Alan W. Watts
#51. One does not imagine the presence of a dog in the Garden of Eden, for had there been, no doubt he would have given adequate protection to his mistress and saved her descendants from all subsequent trouble.
Kate Sanborn
#52. Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls?
Anne Rice
#53. The one taken underwater of Mel's garden of women,
Rachel Caine
#54. God does not lie in our collective past, God lies in our collective future; the Garden of Eden is tomorrow, not yetsterday; the Golden Age lies down the road, not up it.
Ken Wilber
#55. Which story do you want to hear my child?"he picked him up and made him sit on his lap.
"Tell us the story of that fairy who lived in a house of wafers,had a garden of chocolate trees and a pond full of goldfishes,"the child wrapped his arms around his shoulder.
Chitralekha Paul
#56. In a maize field choose to be a flower. In a garden of daises choose to be a rose.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#57. In Proverbs, a wisdom book of the Hebrew Scriptures, a cat would find a few "wisdom" passages as noxious as the Garden of Eden passages. Again the symbology of fruit being eaten
Leviak B. Kelly
#58. It's my destiny to make a place where people can come and be happy: a garden of joy.
Niki De St. Phalle
#59. May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#60. Let whoever wants to, relax in the south,
And bask in the garden of paradise.
Here is the essence of north-and it's autumn
I've chosen as this year's friend.
Anna Akhmatova
#61. The Garden of Wonders project encompasses the knowledge that Be Open has accumulated over the years of work on different continents and different spheres.
Yelena Baturina
#62. All I want to do is, help you rebuild yourself.
Restructure your devastated heart. For I
know, it's impossible to build the exact same
shrine once destroyed in a place but at least
you can make a garden of bliss over a
wreckage
Sameer Khan
#63. What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#64. Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#65. Alan Chadwick's garden is a 'garden of the mind' as much as it is of the soil, and like all genuinely inspired creations it has the power to stir us to new dreams, to a new vision of what man and nature can do, together.
Page Smith
#67. You are the prettiest flower in the garden of my love. As the moon longs for the night, my heart longs for your heart.
Debasish Mridha
#69. I like to think we were man and wife. Life itself can be sacramental. The supposition was that we would be leaving the Garden of Eden together, and would cleave to one another in the wilderness through thick and think.
Kurt Vonnegut
#70. Love, the life-giving garden of this world.
Rumi
#71. Remember, the serpent is still living in the Garden of Eden. Only the heterosexual couple was expelled.
Edward Carpenter
#72. The world is a garden of philosophy. God is its gardener; Man is the visitor.
And any tree that does not bear fruits of philosophy either does not belong to
that garden or is yet to be grown.
Kedar Joshi
#73. If any harm is to come to Turkey's border security, if Turkey reaches the conclusion that this garden of peace is being threatened, it is prepared for any eventuality, we will take the necessary measures to reduce the risks related to cross-border security.
Ahmet Davutoglu
#74. The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.
Rumi
#75. I gasp, and I'm Eve in the Garden of Eden, and he's the serpent, and I cannot resist.
E.L. James
#76. I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.
Anita Diamant
#77. I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?
Peter Tosh
#78. Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It's when you go backwards through the 'begats' and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, 'Hang on, that's a big punishment for eating one lousy apple ... There's a human-rights issue.'
Terry Pratchett
#79. Listening to the bell I feel the afflictions in me begin to dissolve. My mind becomes calm, my body relaxed, and a smile is born on my lips. Following the sound of the bell, my breath guides me back to the safe island of mindfulness. In the garden of my heart, the flower of peace blooms beautifully.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#80. When Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden, they probably did not fall into a state of original sin, as Saint Augustine believed, but into an agrarian economy.
Karen Armstrong
#81. Full of troubles, the mind is still the only Garden of Delight.
Mason Cooley
#83. If government ownership of land and natural resources was the best way to protect the environment, then we should have found a Garden of Eden in the Soviet Union after the Iron Curtain came down. Instead, there was one environmental horror story after another.
Malcolm Wallop
#84. There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden ...
R.C. Sproul
#85. Happiness will grow if you plant the seeds of love in the garden of hope with compassion and care.
Debasish Mridha
#86. A mind is not a barren field, but it is an ever-growing and ever blooming garden of love.
Debasish Mridha
#87. In the garden of the soul, the virtues of faith, hope, and love form the centerpiece. Traditionally called theological virtues, they come as free gifts from God and draw us to God. We cannot earn these virtues; God has already freely planted them in our soul.
Robert Morneau
#88. I suppose there's a time in life when a garden of roses and lavender fails to blind a girl to the true shabbiness of a place. I myself had not reached that moment of clarity.
Katie Crouch
#89. The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.
Margaret Oliphant
#90. Everything can be heard in the garden of a quiet mind.
Andrew Hyde
#91. We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
Voltaire
#93. Take care when wandering about,
in the wilds of the valley and heights of jagged rock.
What a horrific garden of wonderland we have stumbled into;
where a turn of one's heel can lead to flowering jubilation,
and another leads to the twisted and thorny thicket of despair....
Kate Cullen
#94. The birth of Jesus Christ is a reminder of what Adam and Eve failed to do in the Garden of Eden.
Felix Wantang
#95. 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
#96. Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.
Pablo Neruda
#97. Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to spread out the garden of earthly delights.
Barbara Rosenblat
#98. Nourish yourself with the water of love to grow flowers of happiness in the garden of your heart.
Debasish Mridha
#99. Inside each one of us is a beautiful flower garden. This is the garden of the soul. With each lesson we learn, the garden grows. As we learn together, our individual gardens form a tranquil paradise.
Sri Chinmoy
#100. When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant fruits that flourish in the garden of knowledge, then does the child catch a glimpse and foretaste of heaven.
Horace Mann