Master Gardener Quotes

#1. A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

James Allen

#2. My mom is a master gardener and I grew up on a farm. I came back to it really late in life and discovered that despite how lazy and inattentive I was as a child, I had managed to accidentally learn quite a bit about gardening.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#3. The great Master Gardener, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in a wonderful providence, with his own hand, planted me here, where by his grace, in this part of his vineyard, I grow; and here I will abide till the great Master of the vineyard think fit to transplant me.

Samuel Rutherford

#4. Jesus is the Master Gardener. He's the Second Adam, the true and obedient Son of God, tasked with caring for God's garden and protecting it from evil, fulfilling the mandates God had given in the beginning, mandates Adam failed to complete (Genesis 1:28).11

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#5. Talia was always intimidated by her presence, and always felt she looked hoydenish and disheveled, no matter how carefully she'd prepared herself for confrontations.

Mercedes Lackey

#6. The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.

Vera Nazarian

#7. Before I could talk, I would try to sing.

Linda Cardellini

#8. Don't Just Talk About What You can Do; Make It Happen!

Rick Levine

#9. Friends of my youth, a last adieu! Haply some day we meet again:
Ye ne'er the self-same men shall meet; the years shall make us other men.

Richard Francis Burton

#10. If you think you know the consumer better than anyone, then you're in real trouble. So we take a close watch. You spend time in stores.

Mickey Drexler

#11. Your brain processes a thought while your mind creates and cultivates not only your thoughts, but also the knowledge and experiences you gain.

Toni Sorenson

#12. The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.

George Chapman

#13. I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit.

Reginald Farrer

#14. 'The Gardener' is more than a marvellous collection of images by a master photographer.

John Burnside