Quotes About Garden Paths

#1. Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
By singing 'Oh how wonderful' and sitting in the shade,
While better men than we go out, and start their working lives
By grubbing weeds from garden paths with broken dinner knives.

Rudyard Kipling

#2. And this man, who during three long decades had not once remembered that the world contains lilac bushes - and pansies, sandy garden paths, little carts with containers of fizzy water - this man gave a deep sigh, convinced now that life had gone on in his absence, that life had continued. (pg8)

Vasily Grossman

#3. Fashion is capitalism, and it will be fixed by what the market demands.

Cameron Russell

#4. The paths fork and divide. With each step you take through Destiny's garden, you make a choice; and every choice determines future paths. However, at the end of a lifetime of walking you might look back, and see only one path stretching out behind you; or look ahead, and see only darkness.

Neil Gaiman

#5. You look at today, chil'. You say, 'Thank you, Lawd, for everythin' you gives me today.' Then you worries about the next day when the next day come.

Kathleen Grissom

#6. We are born with two options to be slaves or masters of our destiny

Mohammed Sekouty

#7. I wandered in my mind, slowly, noting every detail of the labyrinth, its paths as familiar as those of my garden and yet ever new, as empty as the heart could wish or alive with strange encounters.

Samuel Beckett

#8. Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.

Barbara Smith

#9. There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft.

Jessamyn West

#10. To beguile the time, look like the time.

William Shakespeare

#11. I'll endure anything for you, angel. Anything.

Joey W. Hill

#12. Do you know why I stopped being Delight, my brother? I do. There are things not in your book. There are paths outside this garden.

Neil Gaiman

#13. I never wanted to live a relatable life, I wanted to live an aspirational life. I didn't want to see people who had my life on TV. I wanted to see other lives, right, and so I was always trying to get as much of that stuff as I could.

George Stroumboulopoulos

#14. I leave to various future times, but not to all, my garden of forking paths.

Jorge Luis Borges

#15. To realize peace on the Korean peninsula, and to develop exchange, cooperation between both Koreas, they are the, you know, immediate target of our government.

Kim Dae-jung

#16. Well, as you can plainly see, the possibilities are endless like meandering paths in a great big beautiful garden.

William S. Burroughs

#17. Wander with intent
into a garden glorious.
Walk with double brisk
upon edenic paths.
Flee the cursing fear
that lights upon your eye.
Seize the twisted dream
that strangles earth and sky.

Craig Froman

#18. Nature is the line; those who are under it, we call them as man; above it, we call them as God!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#19. I don't care what anybody says, I think that George Bush is absolutely the right president to oversea the end of the world.

Marc Maron

#20. My friend you must understand that time forks perpetually into countless futures. And in at least one of them I have become your enemy. Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths (1941)

Adrian McKinty