Garden Rock Sayings

#1. Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert. - Author: Arthur Young

#2. In a rock garden we foster a little patch of the wilderness that stands to us for freedom. - Author: Jason Hill

#3. I worked with Dionne Warwick, did shows with Bette Midler, and then I did the 25th anniversary of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Springsteen at the Garden. It was all important stuff because you want people to know you can work, you can sing, and you can still look good! - Author: Darlene Love

#4. I was born in 1972, which means that in "rock" terms I have no business addressing "the kids" unless it's to shoo them out of my garden. - Author: Dan Bejar

#5. We're all buddhas. We just don't recognize it. - Author: Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

#6. Shun artificial rocks like the plague. - Author: Henry Sherman Adams

#7. I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died. - Author: Richard K. Diran

#8. 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.... - Author: Kate Cullen

#9. I paint a tree - I think of how the roots go deep, deep into the earth. How the tree grows year by year toward the sky. How it stands with the winds. - Author: Douglas Lockwood

#10. All human relations untouched by love take place in the dark - Author: Richard Rorty

#11. Planting is not the end; it is only the beginning of planting. - Author: Henry Sherman Adams

#12. Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have. - Author: Ed Bradley

#13. By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You're sort of a predator, an invader of people. - Author: William Trevor

#14. I'm not even worried about the Internet; that ain't even my thing. I'm not even an Internet guy. You rarely even see me into that. - Author: Shy Glizzy

#15. We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation. - Author: Andrew Young

#16. Certain plants, like certain friends, you enjoy having for a visit but do not care to see remain forever and a day. - Author: Henry Sherman Adams

#17. That's what depression had wrought inside me: one, vast, barren rock garden-without the garden - Author: Peter McWilliams

#18. This is the rock garden.
In it, the stones
too are flowers - Author: Margaret Atwood

#19. A tree is an aerial garden, a botanical migration from the sea, from those earliest plants, the seaweeds; it is a purchase on crumbled rock, on ground. The human, standing, is only a different upsweep and articulation of cells. How treelike we are, how human the tree. - Author: Gretel Ehrlich

#20. Behind the cool mask of bravado, past the one-way mirror of his mind, underneath the rock-solid layers of self-control, in the Zen garden that was Master Sewer's soul, a high-pitched anxiety fart rustled through the still leaves. If farts could talk, this one would have said, Damn coppers! - Author: Sorin Suciu

#21. The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking, and is voting for the other guy. - Author: William Proxmire

#22. How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth! - Author: Rumi

#23. If I have something I like to forget, then I forget it. - Author: Gena Rowlands

#24. It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you. - Author: Kate Reardon

#25. To the landscape architect a rock garden ... appears ... the work of a lunatic. - Author: Louise Wilder

#26. I needed to see other girls, girls like me, who make a choice and get to keep it. - Author: Ashton Raze

#27. When Bon Jovi goes out on tour again, that's who I'm going to go see because some of it survives... while the rest becomes compost in the garden of rock 'n' roll. - Author: Lonn Friend

#28. Leave no stone unturned in your quest to disrupt a rock garden. - Author: Demetri Martin