Top 100 In The Garden Quotes
#1. All men, reaching back to Adam in the Garden, plead Ignorance as their defence; when, if we were but honest, we would admit that the apple was hedged with every warning imaginable. So I too fell; perhaps all sins are not causes but effects, being the result of that first sin, Boredom.
K.W. Jeter
#2. A kitten is, in the animal world, what a rosebud is in the garden.
Robert Sowthey
#3. The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.
Anonymous
#4. By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling like mad against the claims of the other months. All is at last in balance and all is serene. The gardener is usually dead, of course.
Henry Mitchell
#5. Love is a flower that grows in the garden of mind if we treat it with kindness, compassion, and joy.
Debasish Mridha
#6. Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.
Thomas Sowell
#7. A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.
Henry Ward Beecher
#8. In the garden of gentle sanity,
May you be bombarded by the coconuts of wakefulness.
Chogyam Trungpa
#9. 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
#10. I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first.
Conrad Veidt
#11. Marriage was defined by God a long time ago. Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve - one man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either.
Kirk Cameron
#12. The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is now become part of the man.
Isaac Watts
#13. I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
Jaclyn Smith
#14. If you are a garden plant you are regarded; well regarded, just as long as you stay in the garden.
Davies Gilbert
#15. This sort of day makes indoor work seem shameful. So working outside, whether in the garden or the woods or on the front porch ... , is a sacrament.
Robert Michael Pyle
#16. Maria was not permitted to walk in the garden; but sometimes, from her window, she turned her eyes from the gloomy walls, in which she pined life away, on the poor wretches who strayed along the walks, and contemplated the most terrific of ruins - that of a human soul.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#17. 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
#18. Within days they'd formed an unholy alliance with a foppish young French vampire in the Garden District who had implausibly golden hair and a streak of ruthlessness as wide as the Mississippi
Deborah Harkness
#19. At the end; highest happiness will be, a white rose, in the garden of your eternal dreams.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#20. I've got something so lovely to think about that I'd like to go back and sit down in the garden, and just think and think until dark without being interrupted by anybody.
Annie Fellows Johnston
#21. Disappointments are like weeds in the garden. You can let them grow and take over your life, or you can rout them out and let the flowers sprout.
Wanda E. Brunstetter
#22. It's cold enough to freeze the cliches off a Dan Browne novel. (Thought of that when working in the garden just after getting yet another 'thanks but no thanks'.)
Patsy Collins
#23. These days, you could stage a three-point orgy in the garden and nobody would bat an eye...
Angela Carter
#24. 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
#25. Negative self assertions are like weeds in the garden of your life. Cleanse your garden of any such weeds.
Sanchita Pandey
#26. 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
#27. Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them.
Diane Ackerman
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. Any mundane activity can become meditative. Digging a hole in the garden, planting new roses in the garden - you can do it with such tremendous love and compassion, you can do it with the hands of a buddha.
Rajneesh
#31. Marlinspike goes down to the kitchen, to grow stout and live out his beastly nature. There is a summer ahead, though he cannot imagine its pleasures; sometimes when he's walking in the garden he sees him, a half-grown cat, lolling watchful in an apple tree, or snoring on a wall in the sun.
Hilary Mantel
#32. Mama worked outside the home - in the garden.
Glenn Beck
#33. In the garden of tabloid delight, there is always a clean towel and another song.
Lewis H. Lapham
#34. Thy Return is as another Sun to Heaven; a new Rose blooming in the Garden of the Soul.
Omar Khayyam
#35. 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
#36. It's a comfort to always find pasta in the cupboard and garlic and parsley in the garden.
Alice Waters
#37. I used to love wildlife as a kid and being outside in the garden and the woods and the field and that stuff.
Sean Bean
#38. A phrase from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil came to mind: Two tears in a bucket. Motherfuck it.
Zane
#39. For children, most importantly, being in the garden is something magical.
Fritjof Capra
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. When someone walks into my room and goes 'wow' at my record collection, at that moment I could actually hate music and just want to go sit in the garden.
Erol Alkan
#44. An un-blossomed rose, in the garden we want to grow.
Paul Travis
#45. It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle?
Julian Fellowes
#46. 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
#47. Soon it began to drizzle for the second time that night. The drops grew heavier and became visible in the headlights of the cars. It was said by some of the police on the scene that God was crying for the girl in the garden. To others, it was only rain. (final lines)
George Pelecanos
#48. The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.
Robert Frost
#49. It takes time to find the courage to display the parts of yourself that aren't bright and shining. But you have to see them, have to know they're inside you ... shadows in the garden. They are a part of all of us.
Anne Bishop
#50. Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight of going trouting.
Charles Dudley Warner
#51. The soap in the bathroom, the flowers in the garden, the book on the bedside table are all strong symbols of a life in progress. You look at these details and a world unfolds.
Charlotte Moss
#52. At the front of my home, in the garden, is a huge piece of clear quartz.
Miranda Kerr
#53. 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
#54. One should make movies innocently - the way Adam and Eve named the animals, their first day in the garden ... Learn from your own interior vision of things, as if there had never been a D.W.Griffith, or a Eisenstein, or a [John] Ford, or a [Jean] Renoir, or anybody.
Orson Welles
#55. [ ... ] we will turn this place around, and a new civilization can be born that does not know boundary lines but knows better how to live in the garden and knows that we are one thought away from paradise.
Jon Ronson
#56. The house was silent, but somewhere in the garden was a swimming pool filled with unsettled water.
J.G. Ballard
#57. Rain in the dump makes water filthy. Rain in the garden cleanses.
Camron Wright
#58. 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
#59. She was gentle and sedate as usual, but evidently absent and preoccupied. Her eyes rested on the dew lying on the grass in the garden, and her ears were intent upon the melancholy singing of the autumn insects. It was as if we were in a real romance.
Murasaki Shikibu
#61. Greatness is finding your natural talent, fueling it with passion, planting it in well-nourished soil, and toiling in the garden until it breaks through the earth and reaches for the stars.
Janet Autherine
#62. In the garden
I see only your face
From trees and blossoms
I inhale only your fragrance.
Rumi
#63. Jenks made a face as he levered himself up on the sill. Much as I enjoy this horrific outpouring of estrogen, I'm going to go say good-bye to my wife. Let me know when you're ready. I'll be in the garden - probably next to the stink weed.
Kim Harrison
#64. 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
#66. Remember, the serpent is still living in the Garden of Eden. Only the heterosexual couple was expelled.
Edward Carpenter
#67. In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could escape the consequences of this world, could flee from death. That was the deceit. The true serpent in the garden.
Libba Bray
#68. I gasp, and I'm Eve in the Garden of Eden, and he's the serpent, and I cannot resist.
E.L. James
#69. The alcoholic trance is not just a haze, as though the eyes were also unshaven. It is not a mere buzzing in the ears, a dizzinessor disturbance of balance. One arrives in the garden again, at nursery time, when the gentle animals are fed and in all the world there are only toys.
William H Gass
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
Candice Swanepoel
#73. They take their punishment so well, so cheerfully: I go out with an adder in my heart, and an asp in my tongue, and every night I sow thorns in the garden of my soul.
Oscar Wilde
#74. In the common words we use every day, souls of past races, the thoughts and feelings of individual men stand around us, not dead, but frozen into their attitudes like the courtiers in the garden of the Sleeping Beauty.
Owen Barfield
#75. It took me a long time to get used to the reality that my grandmother had passed away. Wherever I was, in the house, in the garden, out on the fields, her face always appeared so clearly to me.
Quang Nhuong Huynh
#76. For Pete's sake, Quinn, you should have seen him when I was pregnant. He practically set a peacock on fire for daring to walk across my path in the garden one day.
Alyssa Day
#77. Don't kill doves in the garden. / You kill one and the others won't come.
Malala Yousafzai
#78. I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green things growing, The shadowy cups of roses flowering to themselves- Images of time and eternity- Silence in the garden and felt along the walls.
A. L. Rowse
#79. I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that's a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn't insane. We are only doing philosophy.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#80. Don't wear perfume in the garden - unless you want to be pollinated by bees!
Anne Raver
#81. In the garden the door is always open into the "holy" - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death.
May Sarton
#82. It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, "All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up." And they did.
Diane Arbus
#83. Outside in the garden, which was full of mellow sunset light streaming through the dark old firs to the west of it, stood Anne and Diana, gazing bashfully at each other over a clump of gorgeous tiger lilies.
L.M. Montgomery
#84. Two trees - knowledge and life. You eat of the tree of knowledge, and you will surely die. You eat of the tree of life, and you remain a child in the garden forever, undying.
Orson Scott Card
#85. We've got a wood-burning pizza oven in the garden - a luxury, I know, but it's one of the best investments I've ever made.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#86. Nourish yourself with the water of love to grow flowers of happiness in the garden of your heart.
Debasish Mridha
#87. Well I was out in the garden moving rocks on the day of the Emmys. I was just playing in the dirt.
Charles Keating
#88. Not since the serpent
approached Eve in the Garden had a woman been so tempted by forbidden fruit.
Teresa Medeiros
#89. We are the flower of love in the garden we call earth.
Debasish Mridha
#90. God is entirely and personally present in the wilderness, in the garden, in the field.
Martin Luther
#91. You know the way that children play make-believe in the garden? I did that and I thought, 'This will do for life. Why would I want to do anything else?'
Harry Treadaway
#92. No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.
Van Morrison
#93. Every dream is a butterfly flying in the garden we call life in search of flowers of success and happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#94. There is so much jasmine and nightshade in the garden that we all wake with lyrical headaches.
Frances Mayes
#95. The birth of Jesus Christ is a reminder of what Adam and Eve failed to do in the Garden of Eden.
Felix Wantang
#96. In the garden and not on the cross, Jesus saw each of us and not only bore our sins but also experienced our deepest feelings so he would know how to comfort and strengthen us.
Merrill J. Bateman
#98. It astounds me that out of all the flowers in the garden, the rose would fall in love with the thorn.
H R Brock
#99. In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil. And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we get such superb colour effects as from August to November.
George Eliot
#100. In the beginning was the dog the real name of Jehovah is Rover. Adam's rib is buried in the garden
John Hegley
