Top 100 The Garden Quotes
#1. She looked up through a haze of pain. At the edge of the garden, a dark figure approached - the silhouette of a man whose eyes shone like miniature headlamps, blinding Reyna. She heard the scrape of iron against leather as he drew another arrow from his quiver.
Rick Riordan
#2. I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green things growing, The shadowy cups of roses flowering to themselves- Images of time and eternity- Silence in the garden and felt along the walls.
A. L. Rowse
#3. Don't kill doves in the garden. / You kill one and the others won't come.
Malala Yousafzai
#4. One of the greatest virtues of gardening is this perpetual renewal of youth and spring, of promise of flower and fruit that can always be read in the open book of the garden, by those with an eye to see, and a mind to understand.
Edward Augustus Bowles
#5. This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden.
Barbara Kingsolver
#6. The garden that is finished is dead.
H.E. Bates
#7. For Pete's sake, Quinn, you should have seen him when I was pregnant. He practically set a peacock on fire for daring to walk across my path in the garden one day.
Alyssa Day
#8. I am the call of love ...
Can you hear me in the full grasses, in the scented winds ?
It is I who makes the garden smile.
Rumi
#9. The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alivewith chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other's names.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#10. Today's Multiple Choice Thought
There is no place where a loving touch so completely compensates for an unskilled hand as in:
a. the bedroom
b. the nursery
c. the garden
Robert Breault
#11. The garden is a living, pulsing, singing, scratching, warring, erotic, and generally rowdy thing. I may find peace in its midst, but I regard it as a whole with many parts, a plural organism.
Diane Ackerman
#12. It took me a long time to get used to the reality that my grandmother had passed away. Wherever I was, in the house, in the garden, out on the fields, her face always appeared so clearly to me.
Quang Nhuong Huynh
#13. But, lo! and just as the coach drove off, Miss Sharp put her pale face out of the window and actually flung the book back into the garden.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#14. In the common words we use every day, souls of past races, the thoughts and feelings of individual men stand around us, not dead, but frozen into their attitudes like the courtiers in the garden of the Sleeping Beauty.
Owen Barfield
#15. We, the garden of technology. We, undecidable.
John Cage
#16. And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')
William Blake
#17. The garden is a world filled with secrets. Slowly, I see more each day. The black pines twist and turn to form graceful shapes, while the moss is a carpet of green that invites you to sit by the pond. Even the stone lanterns, which dimly light the way at night, allow you to see only so much.
Gail Tsukiyama
#18. If gardeners will forget a little the phrase, "watering the plants" and think of watering as a matter of "watering the earth" under the plants, keeping up its moisture content and gauging its need, the garden will get on very well.
Henry Beston
#19. Today I have nothing to do except to enjoy the garden, drink the beauty of nature, and feel the joy of love and life.
Debasish Mridha
#20. You want to talk about big things, but it's the catches on the garden sheds and the London Zoo cards that give you the footholds; without them you wouldn't know where to start.
Nick Hornby
#21. We will this year gather celestial fruits on earthly ground, where faith and hope have made the desert like the garden of the Lord.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#22. It's the sense of walking back into the Garden of Eden or something like that. Where suddenly everything is perfect and you see how you're connected to everything in the world.
Larkin Grimm
#23. They take their punishment so well, so cheerfully: I go out with an adder in my heart, and an asp in my tongue, and every night I sow thorns in the garden of my soul.
Oscar Wilde
#24. It was a cold hard easterly morning when he latched the garden gate and turned away. The light snowfall which had feathered his schoolroom windows on the Thursday, still lingered in the air, and was falling white, while the wind blew black.
Charles Dickens
#25. The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
May Sarton
#26. And I went into the garden and lay down and looked at the stars in the sky and made myself negligible.
Mark Haddon
#27. I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
Candice Swanepoel
#28. And when wind and winter harden
All the loveless land,
It will whisper of the garden,
You will understand.
Oscar Wilde
#29. If you rest too long the weeds take the garden.
Jim Rohn
#30. Spirituality is not easy to define, but you can tell when it is present. It is the fragrance of the garden of the Lord, the power to change the atmosphere around you, the influence that makes Christ real to others.
J. Oswald Sanders
#31. I call myself, 'The Estee Lauder of the garden world.' I'm my own little conglomerate.
C. Z. Guest
#32. And so we stayed out in the garden of the old house until we couldn't kick a ball, laughing in the gathering twilight, making the most of the good weather and all the days that were left, our little game watched only by next door's cat, and every star in the heavens.
Tony Parsons
#33. A great challenge: stop ruining the garden which God has entrusted to us so that all may enjoy it.
Pope Francis
#34. Listening to the bell I feel the afflictions in me begin to dissolve. My mind becomes calm, my body relaxed, and a smile is born on my lips. Following the sound of the bell, my breath guides me back to the safe island of mindfulness. In the garden of my heart, the flower of peace blooms beautifully.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#35. On turf and curb and bower-roof
The snow-storm spreads its ivory woof;
It paves with pearl the garden-walk;
And lovingly around the tatter'd stalk
And snivering stem its magic weaves
A mantle fair as lily-leaves.
John Townsend Trowbridge
#36. Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It's when you go backwards through the 'begats' and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, 'Hang on, that's a big punishment for eating one lousy apple ... There's a human-rights issue.'
Terry Pratchett
#37. And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.
Rumi
#38. The Garden trapped me like an animal. The Governess sold me like livestock at an auction. And the mayor and his family would have made me their whore. I am shaking with rage.
Kristen Simmons
#39. While they drove past the garden the shadows of the bare trees often fell across the road and hid the brilliant moonlight, but as soon as they were past the fence, the snowy plain bathed in moonlight and motionless spread out before them glittering like diamonds and dappled with bluish shadows.
Leo Tolstoy
#40. I will go to the garden.
I will be a romantic. I will sell
myself in hell,
in heaven also I will be.
Robert Creeley
#41. I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?
Peter Tosh
#42. I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.
Anita Diamant
#43. Mistletoe," said Kian, leading me to a spot in the center of the garden. He kissed me softly. "I hear it means something in your world.
Kailin Gow
#44. The alcoholic trance is not just a haze, as though the eyes were also unshaven. It is not a mere buzzing in the ears, a dizzinessor disturbance of balance. One arrives in the garden again, at nursery time, when the gentle animals are fed and in all the world there are only toys.
William H Gass
#45. I gasp, and I'm Eve in the Garden of Eden, and he's the serpent, and I cannot resist.
E.L. James
#46. The most elemental difference between the machine and the garden is that one is driven by a force which must be introduced from without, the other grown by an energy which originates from within itself.
Steven Pinker
#47. The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.
Rumi
#48. The successful recruit must be empathetic. This condition rules out the sadistic, the vengeful, and the enthusiastic. Therefore, many of the garden-variety killers who applied so far have had no chance of success, especially those who are already behind bars.
Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
#49. Embrace the faff. Stare out of the window. Bend paperclips. Stand in the middle of the room trying to remember what you came downstairs for. Pace. Drum your fingertips. Move papers around. Hum. Look at the garden.
Tom Hodgkinson
#50. In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could escape the consequences of this world, could flee from death. That was the deceit. The true serpent in the garden.
Libba Bray
#51. Remember, the serpent is still living in the Garden of Eden. Only the heterosexual couple was expelled.
Edward Carpenter
#52. My cat did that the other day when he came in from the garden.
Ann Widdecombe
#53. Thrown from the garden, she searches for true love. but she needs an heir.
Suzanne Stroh
#54. She still stood in front of the garden tub, the piece of glass in her hand, and she stared back at me like an animal cornered.
In that moment she didn't remind me of a harmless little kitten. She was a full-grown tigress, and she still looked like she wanted to do some damage.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#55. I like to think we were man and wife. Life itself can be sacramental. The supposition was that we would be leaving the Garden of Eden together, and would cleave to one another in the wilderness through thick and think.
Kurt Vonnegut
#56. 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
#57. Protein has been intensely over-represented on the plate. Now, the garden should be the main drag for main courses.
Mario Batali
#59. You are the prettiest flower in the garden of my love. As the moon longs for the night, my heart longs for your heart.
Debasish Mridha
#60. Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate.
Iggy Pop
#61. What I love about the currawongs is the way in which they appear from nowhere and, for a brief period, rule the garden's soundscape, only to disappear as quickly as they arrived.
John Gould
#62. Jenks made a face as he levered himself up on the sill. Much as I enjoy this horrific outpouring of estrogen, I'm going to go say good-bye to my wife. Let me know when you're ready. I'll be in the garden - probably next to the stink weed.
Kim Harrison
#63. In the garden
I see only your face
From trees and blossoms
I inhale only your fragrance.
Rumi
#64. Greatness is finding your natural talent, fueling it with passion, planting it in well-nourished soil, and toiling in the garden until it breaks through the earth and reaches for the stars.
Janet Autherine
#66. You would get longer livelier and more frequent letters from me, if it weren't for the Christian religion. How that bell tolling at the end of the garden, dum dum, dum dum, annoys me! Why is Christianity so insistent and so sad?
Virginia Woolf
#67. The Baroness found it amusing to go to tea; she dressed as if for dinner. The tea-table offered an anomalous and picturesque repast; and on leaving it they all sat and talked in the large piazza, or wandered about the garden in the starlight.
Henry James
#68. She was gentle and sedate as usual, but evidently absent and preoccupied. Her eyes rested on the dew lying on the grass in the garden, and her ears were intent upon the melancholy singing of the autumn insects. It was as if we were in a real romance.
Murasaki Shikibu
#69. Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#70. Beauty is the garden scent of roses, murmuring water flowing gently ... Can words describe the indescribable?
Rumi
#71. He means to make his subjects merciful and wise; sorrow and struggle bringeth both. We will, he tells me, grow by grieving, live by dying, love by losing. The heart itself is the field of battle and the garden green.
Andrew Peterson
#72. Rain in the dump makes water filthy. Rain in the garden cleanses.
Camron Wright
#73. The Garden of Wonders project encompasses the knowledge that Be Open has accumulated over the years of work on different continents and different spheres.
Yelena Baturina
#74. The house was silent, but somewhere in the garden was a swimming pool filled with unsettled water.
J.G. Ballard
#75. [ ... ] we will turn this place around, and a new civilization can be born that does not know boundary lines but knows better how to live in the garden and knows that we are one thought away from paradise.
Jon Ronson
#76. Beauty is what I feel my life is about - the garden, the house, whatever. I see the world that way, yet it isn't.
Julie Newmar
#78. One should make movies innocently - the way Adam and Eve named the animals, their first day in the garden ... Learn from your own interior vision of things, as if there had never been a D.W.Griffith, or a Eisenstein, or a [John] Ford, or a [Jean] Renoir, or anybody.
Orson Welles
#79. Let whoever wants to, relax in the south,
And bask in the garden of paradise.
Here is the essence of north-and it's autumn
I've chosen as this year's friend.
Anna Akhmatova
#80. At the front of my home, in the garden, is a huge piece of clear quartz.
Miranda Kerr
#81. The soap in the bathroom, the flowers in the garden, the book on the bedside table are all strong symbols of a life in progress. You look at these details and a world unfolds.
Charlotte Moss
#82. Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight of going trouting.
Charles Dudley Warner
#83. In Proverbs, a wisdom book of the Hebrew Scriptures, a cat would find a few "wisdom" passages as noxious as the Garden of Eden passages. Again the symbology of fruit being eaten
Leviak B. Kelly
#84. It takes time to find the courage to display the parts of yourself that aren't bright and shining. But you have to see them, have to know they're inside you ... shadows in the garden. They are a part of all of us.
Anne Bishop
#85. Kali is the forest. She is wild. Gauri is the garden. She is domestic. Kali stays outside the house. Gauri comes inside the house. That is why what is outside is scary and what is inside is not.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#86. The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.
Robert Frost
#87. God does not lie in our collective past, God lies in our collective future; the Garden of Eden is tomorrow, not yetsterday; the Golden Age lies down the road, not up it.
Ken Wilber
#88. It is the garden dseigner's job to hide the vulgar and the common as far as the eye can see and include only the excellent and splendid.
Andrew Crofts
#89. I adore summer entertaining. For a dinner party at the farm, I might prepare homemade fettuccine with porcini mushrooms, soft-shell crabs, spinach from the garden, and lemon tarts with fraises des bois for dessert.
Martha Stewart
#90. Soon it began to drizzle for the second time that night. The drops grew heavier and became visible in the headlights of the cars. It was said by some of the police on the scene that God was crying for the girl in the garden. To others, it was only rain. (final lines)
George Pelecanos
#91. The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged
though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.
Robert Frost
#92. There are those who say that trees shade the garden too much, and interfere with the growth of the vegetables. There may be something in this:but when I go down the potato rows, the rays of the sun glancing upon my shining blade, the sweat pouring down my face, I should be grateful for shade.
Charles Dudley Warner
#93. In the end, I'm only going next door.
To the end of the corridor, into my favorite room.
And from there, out into the garden.
And there I will become light and go wherever I want.
Nina George
#94. One does not imagine the presence of a dog in the Garden of Eden, for had there been, no doubt he would have given adequate protection to his mistress and saved her descendants from all subsequent trouble.
Kate Sanborn
#95. It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle?
Julian Fellowes
#97. Adam's role was to assert and enjoy his sovereignty under God, cultivating the garden into an expanding paradise and protecting it from all harm.
Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.
#98. I work every day from 9:30 or so until lunchtime. In the afternoons, I become a normal person - go shopping and do the garden and look after my grandchildren.
Deborah Moggach
#99. An un-blossomed rose, in the garden we want to grow.
Paul Travis
#100. In the garden of gentle sanity,
May you be bombarded by the coconuts of wakefulness.
Chogyam Trungpa
