Top 100 Gardiner's Quotes
#3. Kepler reportedly said, amid the massacres of religious wars, the laws of elliptical motion belong to no man or principality.'17 The same could be said of music.
John Eliot Gardiner
#5. Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
Stephen Gardiner
#6. I didn't notice it in those early years - I thought I was surrounded by people who wished me nothing but good. I heard the whispers and shrugged off the notoriety, the half-hidden glances and smirks. I
Kelly Gardiner
#7. The great object of the Christian is duty; his predominant desire to obey God. When he can please the world consistently with these, he will do so; otherwise it is enough for him that God commands, and enough for them that he cannot disobey.
Gardiner Spring
#8. Tears fell from my eyes - yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth; and for that beauty of which the faithful mirror too plainly assured me, no remnant existed.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
#10. The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.
Stephen Gardiner
#12. The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.
Stephen Gardiner
#13. How does one measure bravery? I suppose one starts by looking at the difference between what you are naturally inclined to do, and what your sense of duty tells you you should do. Courage is what it costs you to cover the deficiency.
Ian Gardiner
#14. The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.
Stephen Gardiner
#17. The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.
Stephen Gardiner
#21. Was it hard to watch people go?
No. Breathing afterward, every day, was harder.
Meg Gardiner
#22. The children of God do sin; they sin knowingly; they sin voluntarily; but they do not sin habitually.
Gardiner Spring
#24. Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
Marguerite Gardiner
#25. In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.
Marguerite Gardiner
#26. That which we look on with unselfish love
And true humility is surely ours,
Even as a lake looks at the stars above
And makes within itself a heaven of stars.
Mary Gardiner Brainard
#28. Is she dead, Mr. Stone Fox? Is she dead?" little Willy asked, looking up at Stone Fox with his one good eye.
John Reynolds Gardiner
#30. [His mind] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the lightning from one subject to another, and occasionally burst forth in passionate throes of intellect, nearly allied to madness.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
#32. The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
Stephen Gardiner
#33. Sure there's different roads from this to Dungarvan* - some thinks one road pleasanter, and some think another; wouldn't it be mighty foolish to quarrel for this? - and sure isn't it twice worse to thry to interfere with people for choosing the road they like best to heaven?
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
#34. When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.
Marguerite Gardiner
#36. In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.
Stephen Gardiner
#37. I see little alteration at Lyons since I formerly passed through it. Its manufactories are, nevertheless, flourishing, though less improvement than could be expected is visible in the external aspect of the place.
Marguerite Gardiner
#38. They agreed, however, that they could wish them only as much joy as they had together, refusing to be dislodged from their position as the happiest couple in the world, by anyone.
Rebecca Ann Collins
#41. This is the spirit of prayer
sincere, humble, believing, submissive. Other prayer than this the Bible does not require
God will not accept.
Gardiner Spring
#42. Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.
Stephen Gardiner
#43. The highest point of Christian experience is to press forward. It is a distinguishing trait in the character of every good man that he grows in grace. Grace in the heart as certainly improves and advances, as a tree thrives in a kindly and well watered soil.
Gardiner Spring
#45. Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.
Stephen Gardiner
#46. The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.
Stephen Gardiner
#47. The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.
Stephen Gardiner
#48. In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
Stephen Gardiner
#50. It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.
Stephen Gardiner
#51. Disappointment has a horrible taste - I've never liked it myself - the way it burns on the tongue like sulphur and turns your belly to acid. I
Kelly Gardiner
#53. I'm the way I am because this is how God made me - God and my own father - and that is how I will die.
Kelly Gardiner
#54. Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.
Stephen Gardiner
#55. Most of us plateau when we lose the tension between where we are and where we ought to be.
John Gardiner
#58. The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
Stephen Gardiner
#59. Grand a pop for the vampires who survived their first does.
Lina Gardiner
#62. Serve God, and God will take care of you. Submit to His will, trust in His grace, and resign yourself into His hands with the assurance that the Lord is well pleased with those that hope in His mercy.
Gardiner Spring
#63. Faith in Christ is not an exercise of the understanding merely; it is an affection of the heart. "With the heart man believeth." To those who believe Christ is precious.
Gardiner Spring
#64. There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a knowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it except at the expense of a hardened or a wounded heart.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
#65. There is one grace you cannot counterfeit ... the grace of perseverance.
Gardiner Spring
#69. The fencing masters adjust your pose, your wrist, just as singing masters try to rearrange your throat and tongue, as concert masters order the notes, the cadence. I've had many masters. I hear their voices. I don't need to, anymore, but they still speak to me, through me. Always.
Kelly Gardiner
#70. Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
Stephen Gardiner
#71. Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?
Marguerite Gardiner
#72. Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.
Marguerite Gardiner
#73. The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.
Stephen Gardiner
#74. Was wanting of it, when a letter arrived from Mrs. Gardiner,
Jane Austen
#75. my lovers had only ever tended to their own needs. I didn't know that romance and sex were different creatures - one of the soul, one of the body. I had no idea that two souls can feel as if they are joined in one body, as it were, no matter the shape of the bodies involved. Clara
Kelly Gardiner
#76. In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.
Stephen Gardiner
#79. I see not a step before me as I tread on another year;But I've left the Past in God's keeping,-the FutureHis mercy shall clear;And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.
Mary Gardiner Brainard
#81. The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.
Stephen Gardiner
#82. We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
Marguerite Gardiner
#83. It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.
Stephen Gardiner
#84. At the piping of all hands,When the judgment-signal's spread-When the islands and the landsAnd the seas give up their dead,And the South and North shall come;When the sinner is dismayed,And the just man is afraid,Then Heaven be thy aid,Poor Tom.
John Gardiner Calkins Brainard
#85. Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.
Stephen Gardiner
#86. Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
Stephen Gardiner
#87. There are some chagrins of the heart which a friend ought to try to console without betraying a knowledge of their existence, as there are physical maladies which a physician ought to seek to heal without letting the sufferer know that he has discovered their extent.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
#88. The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.
Stephen Gardiner
#89. Meg Gardiner is one of my favorite authors. She always delivers a terrific read. Phantom Instinct should go to the top of your 'to-be-read' pile.
Karin Slaughter
#94. French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.
Stephen Gardiner
#95. The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.
Stephen Gardiner
#96. The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh That filters through the forest, or the gush That swells and sinks amid the branches high,
'Tis all the music of the wind, and we Let fancy float on the aeolian breath.
John Gardiner Calkins Brainard
#98. I feel as though I'm not breathing when I'm out of his presence. He's the oxygen in my air, the sun in my universe, the staff of my life.
- Jane Gardiner
Madeleine L'Engle
#99. Each time we explore Bach's music we feel as if we have traveled great distances to, and through, a remote but entrancing soundscape
John Eliot Gardiner
#100. In one sense. I prefer to be alone. No. That's not true. There are a few people - five, at most - with whom I could happily spend days at a time. Otherwise I've always been a creature of solitude. Not an outcast - not always. But I am not at home as part of a throng, the way some people are. The
Kelly Gardiner