Quotes About Gardening And Books

#1. May I a small house and large garden have;
And a few friends,
And many books, both true.

Abraham Cowley

#2. My job is my own only land.

Maxine Hong Kingston

#3. Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.

Hillary Clinton

#4. Wisdom does not make me full. It fills me with hunger.

Noah Benshea

#5. I'm sixty-nine years old, and I have no plans to run for reelection. Do you think I give a damn?

John Hart

#6. Reading books about gardens is a potent pastime; books nourish a gardener's mind in the same way as manure nourishes plants.

Mirabel Osler

#7. Fred Sanger was one of the most important scientists of the 20th century.

Craig Venter

#8. Parents, teachers, government - they all teach you how to live the dreary , deadening life of a slave, but nobody teaches you how to live normally.

Ryu Murakami

#9. Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library.

Nora Roberts

#10. I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced less the older I've gotten.

Amy Grant

#11. Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

Hesiod

#12. She wrote her stories, and they were read and enjoyed - or so Lenore claimed - by many. Josephine enjoyed quiet society and music and books and gardening.

Elizabeth Hunter

#13. Nothing, I believe, can really teach us the nature and meaning of inspiration but personal experience of it. That we may all have such experience if we will but attend to the divine influences in our own hearts, is the cardinal doctrine of Quakerism.

Caroline Emelia Stephen

#14. What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.

Barbra Streisand

#15. I read in one of the gardening books that manure was very good for soil, so I had a shitload delivered.

Kaaron Warren

#16. In short, you have only your emotions to sell. This is the experience of all writers.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#17. I do many kinds of work, and if you forbid me from binding books, from gardening, from writing poetry, from practicing walking meditation, from teaching children, I will be very unhappy. To me, work is pleasant. Pleasant or unpleaseant depends on our way of looking.

Nhat Hanh

#18. Writing is a Passion, Art is my Dreams, Crafting is something I Enjoy.

The day one stops learning is the day one stops living.

Carol Hopkins

#19. The work we have to do is with ourselves ,If we're ever going to be at peace with each other.

Ian McEwan

#20. I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!

Barry Sternlicht

#21. Where have all the flowers of old Singapore gone? Gone, one would imagine, with the old folks and homes

Thien

#22. different genres. To go with her fiction, she also writes nonfiction in many different fields with books available on resume writing, companion gardening

Dale Mayer

#23. There are thousands of books on the joy of gardening and cooking. Alas, there are only few on the joy of living.

Robert Muller