Over The Garden Wall Quotes

#1. Dad leapt over the garden wall instead of going through the gate. Sadly he didn't do himself a severe injury, and so he lives to embarrass me to death another day.

Louise Rennison

#2. It's over the garden wall and we're going to see the Wizard, come what may and hell to pay.
-Elphaba

Gregory Maguire

#3. The most important things cannot be spoken; that's why there's music.

Clive Wearing

#4. I love designing dresses and tops.

Serena Williams

#5. These handkerchief gardens are a traditional German solution to apartment dwellers' yearning for a tool shed and a vegetable garden. They make a patchwork of green in odd corners of urban land, along train lines or canals or, as here, in the lee of the Wall.

Anna Funder

#6. I am alone with you," he says. "And at the same time, neither of us will ever be alone again.

J. Kenner

#7. A cat improves the garden wall in sunshine, and the hearth in foul weather.

Judith Merkle Riley

#8. [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

#9. 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

#10. The virtuous woman must be treated like a relic - adored, but not handled; she should be guarded and prized, like a fine flower-garden, the beauty and fragrance of which the owner allows others to enjoy only at a distance, and through iron walls.

Miguel De Cervantes

#11. He was a prosperous old bachelor, and his open window looked into a prosperous little garden and orchard, and there was a prosperous iron safe let into the wall at the side of his fireplace, and I did not doubt that heaps of his prosperity were put away in it in bags.

Charles Dickens

#12. The old church tower and garden wall
Are black with autumn rain
And dreary winds foreboding call
The darkness down again

Emily Bronte

#13. Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.

Robert Frost

#14. As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.

Thomas More

#15. I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#16. Every experience is a gift and happens for a reason. No matter how big or small, we are reminded that we are the captains of our ship.

Alexz Johnson

#17. We walked round the ruined garden twice or thrice more, and it was all in bloom for me. If the green and yellow growth of weed in the chinks of the old wall had been the most precious flowers that ever blew, it could not have been more cherished in my remembrance.

Charles Dickens

#18. The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;
She shines on thieves on the garden wall,
On streets and fields and harbour quays,
And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#19. There was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their

Arthur Conan Doyle

#20. Mineral cactai, quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls, the bird that punctures space, thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind. The pines taught me to talk to myself. In that garden I learnedto send myself off. Later there were no gardens.

Octavio Paz

#21. In the garden of our house, when I was three. My brothers and I had a jumping wall. I remember it as enormously high, but it was probably only about a foot and a half.

Juliet Stevenson

#22. Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.

Paul Haggis

#23. Even for the dead I will not bind my soul to grief, death cannot long divide; for is it not as if the rose that climbed my garden wall had bloomed the other side?

Alice Cary

#24. Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

Carly Simon

#25. I'm glad Hurricane Katrina happened. It taught us an important lesson: black people can't swim.

Carlos Mencia

#26. When they have opened a gap in the ... wall of separation between the Garden of the Church and the wildernes of the world, God hath ever ... made his Garden a Wildernesse.

Roger Williams

#27. You'll never have a garden - a garden needs walls and you have no walls.

Russell Page

#28. It's surprisingly nice out here, peaceful and pretty-strange to be standing in the middle of a little garden while enclosed by the massive stone walls of the prison, like being at the exact center of a hurricane, and finding peace and silence in the middle of so much shrieking damage.

Lauren Oliver

#29. I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money.

Rufus Wainwright

#30. Self-reflection is an important stage to diagnose, develop and strengthen your creativity.

Pearl Zhu

#31. The world has different owners at sunrise ... Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns; a tortoise-shell cat who never appears in daytime patrols the brick walls, and a golden-tailed pheasant glints his way through the iris spears.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#32. On Algebra - We're a month into it, and I'm planning to start a real protest movement, one to have X and Y removed from the alphabet. Z is also suspect as far as I'm concerned ... Damn it! They put a man on the moon; can't they find some way to end the scourge of Algebra?

Huston Piner

#33. And I'll see Sirius again. . . .

J.K. Rowling

#34. A.I. poses a potential threat more dangerous than nuclear weapons.

Judy Woodruff

#35. Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.

Adriana Trigiani

#36. I might as well doubt my own existence as to doubt the divine authenticity of the Book of Mormon or the divine calling of Joseph Smith.

Richard Lloyd Anderson

#37. Death is only an old door/Set in a garden wall.

Nancy Byrd Turner

#38. This is really why I made my daughters learn to garden - so they would always have a mother to love them, long after I am gone.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

#39. Mexican homes as a rule are closed off to the world by high blank walls of yellowish masonry, topped with broken glass to discourage escaladores, or climbing burglars. The gardens and fountains and other delights are hidden, as in an Arab city.

Charles Portis