Quotes About Shrubbery

#1. I'm not a garden expert in any sense of the meaning, only someone who blunders about in the shrubbery.

Mirabel Osler

#2. Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch of grass, shrubbery and the occasional tree that exists purely to stop the original developer's plans from looking like a howling concrete wilderness.

Ben Aaronovitch

#3. Home was something besides so much lumber and plaster. You built your thoughts into the frame work. You planted a little of your heart with the trees and the shrubbery.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

#4. The Paddock was one of those medium-sized houses with a goodish bit of very tidy garden and a carefully rolled gravel drive curving past a shrubbery that looked as if it had just come back from the dry cleaner - the sort of house you take one look at and say to yourself, Somebody's aunt lives there.

P.G. Wodehouse

#5. I spent six hours becoming one with a shrubbery last night. There were three cloudbursts and a rain of small and very confused frogs

Charles Stross

#6. Vampire strength might not let me lift cars, but I will tear up some shrubbery all day long.

Drew Hayes

#7. Billy's smile as he came out of the shrubbery was at least as peculiar as Mona Lisa's, for he was simultaneously on foot in Germany in 1944 and riding his Cadillac in 1967.

Kurt Vonnegut

#8. To say the truth,' replied Miss Crawford, 'I am something like the famous Doge at the court of Lewis XIV.; and may declare that I see no wonder in this shrubbery equal to seeing myself in it

Jane Austen

#9. The living room was still dark, because of the heavy growth of the shrubbery the owner had allowed to mask the windows. I put a lamp on and mooched a cigarette. I lit it. I stared down at him. I rumpled my hair which was already rumpled. I put the old tired grin on my face.

Raymond Chandler

#10. I hurtled down a path through the middle of a park, past shrubbery so refined it was probably entitled to vote.

Michael Marshall Smith

#11. They're coming! All of us waiting for the little green men to probe us or decimate us or turn us into shrubbery.

Andrew Pyper

#12. Other people have shrubbery in their gardens. You have a bottomless pit.

Cassandra Clare

#13. I've never asked him but I'm sure he has a fairly stringent policy about random teenagers lurking in his shrubbery.

Cassandra Clare

#14. The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.

Willa Cather

#15. They set off through the soft lingering light. One cuckoo in the depths of Layer Wood and one in the dense shrubbery of the Dower House were keeping up their eternal question and answer, and in the comparative coolness which had come with the evening all the scents of summer had magnified.

Norah Lofts

#16. Oh, Lor!' said the boy, sitting down on the grassy bank at the edge of the shrubbery and very quickly getting up again because the grass was soaking wet. His name was unfortunately Eustace Scrubb but he wasn't a bad sort.

C.S. Lewis

#17. Happiness is neither within us only, or without us; it is the union of ourselves with God

Blaise Pascal

#18. Whether you are right in the middle of a glamorous event or watching it from the sidelines, the red carpet Oscar events set the stage to showcase the latest designs and styles for those watching around the world.

Brad Goreski

#19. I want everyone inside of Microsoft to take that responsibility. This is not about top-line growth. This is not about bottom-line growth. This is about us individually having a growth mindset.

Satya Nadella

#20. Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night.

Philip Reeve

#21. Among all the wise people of the nations and among all their kingdoms, there is no one like You. Jeremiah 10:7

Beth Moore

#22. I've got to stop looking at you, like you light my world. You're the dark cloud which brings the rain. You're the hurricane which destroys my peace. You are not the sun. I am my own light.

LeAnne Mechelle

#23. Picture books are an emotional medium. They need to make us feel something.

Marla Frazee

#24. The freedom of growing older is that one is no longer obliged to dislike someone simply because they dislike you.

Julian Fellowes

#25. He wanted to be a Runner. He would be a Runner. Deep inside he knew he had to go out there, into the Maze. Despite everything he'd learned and witnessed firsthand, it called to him as much as hunger or thirst.

James Dashner

#26. Our GDP growth rates are creating - our high GDP growth rates, the success of our economy means we're creating lots of disposable income.

John W. Snow

#27. Adventure is the invitation to common people to become uncommon.

Warren Miller

#28. I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.

Jimmy Webb

#29. She is the prettiest and most engaging little fairy in the world.

Charles Dickens

#30. When I was young, a teacher had forbidden me to say "more perfect" because she said if a thing is perfect it can't be more so. But by now I had seen enough of life to have regained my confidence in it.

Norman Maclean

#31. The clip-joints are filled every night with marks who crave the tat," said one con man. "If you gave one of them an even break, it would spoil his evening.

David W. Maurer