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My Garden Quotes

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
- Joseph Addison

The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.
- Eden Ahbez

It's like my garden, love. Everything grows. Including love. And with that growing everyday how can you expect missing her to ever fade away? Everything builds, including our ability to cope with it. That's how we keep going.
- Cecelia Ahern

I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it's all about.
- Julie Andrews

When I got to the library I came to a standstill, - ah, the dear room, what happy times I have spent in it rummaging amongst the books, making plans for my garden, building castles in the air, writing, dreaming, doing nothing.
- Elizabeth Von Arnim

And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, 'You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise.
- Oscar Wilde

I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.
- Jacqueline Bisset

PAVILIONS OF SUN
Swans do fly
High above you
All the time
Prince of Sun
From his pavilion
Makes you shine
Come, come, come into my garden, lady love
Maybe I can hold your gold hand
Glide within my gold grove, lady love
Know the earth and you'll understand
- Marc Bolan

Eventually my goal is get a place in Ojai where I can have animals and a big garden. Just drink wine all day and hang in my garden.
- Michelle Branch

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia

I grow green beans in my garden. The one thing I know about harvesting them is that you need to train your eyes to see the beans. At first it all looks like leaves, until you see one bean and then another and another. If you want clarity, too, you have to look hard. You have to look under things and look from different angles. You'll see what you need to when you do that. A hundred beans, suddenly.
- Deb Caletti

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
- Bertrand Russell

It's disturbing how fast weeds take root in my garden of worthiness.
They're so hard to pull.
And grow back so easily.
- Wendelin Van Draanen

Is my gardener's pride to be sacrificed on the altar of Mr Molesley's ambitions?
- The Dowager Countess(Maggie Smith)
- Julian Fellowes

My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.
- Ian Hamilton Finlay

My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know.
- Howard Finster

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.
- Ina Garten

Flowers and fear are a lot alike. For one, flowers and fear have a distinct smell, and two, I'm currently trying to grow both in my garden.
- Jarod Kintz

I grew a mustache, and I grew it in my garden. My mustache is organic, and will taste tasty on your mouth.
- Jarod Kintz

I want to grow a tan and an accent, then dig it out of my garden and staple it to my naked body. I like Salmon Rushdie like a bear would. Especially with a honey glaze.
- Jarod Kintz

Would women find vampires even sexier and more romantic if instead of fangs they had rose thorns? It's thoughts like these I think of when digging in my garden, looking for my one true love (If only I could remember where I buried her!).
- Jarod Kintz

The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.
- Lillie Langtry

The wind, one brilliant day, called
to my soul with an odor of jasmine.
"In return for the odor of my jasmine,
I'd like all the odor of your roses."
"I have no roses; all the flowers
in my garden are dead."
"Well then, I'll take the withered petals
and the yellow leaves and the waters of the fountain."
the wind left. And I wept. And I said to myself:
"What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?
- Antonio Machado

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece
- Claude Monet

My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.
- Eric Morecambe

I'll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical plants like caution and common sense. Still, though, hope does not flourish in every garden, and I feel thankful it has taken root in mine.
- Sharon Kay Penman

If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.
- Bill Shankly

Like the garlic mustard in my garden and the roses on my fence, love has a funny way of blooming after years of being buried.
- Sarah Strohmeyer

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.
- Uma Thurman

If my ex-husband could move on, I could, too. I would search for my gardener, someone who would help me to grow and bloom, but who would recognize the fragility of a new flower just starting to poke out of the ground.
If I was lucky, he'd have a long cultivator.
- Tracy H Tucker

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
- Lope De Vega

People think that because of my act that I must have a really busy mind and I must be driven. I really am not. I quite like going outside and looking at spiders on a hedge in my garden and stuff.
- Tim Vine

Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields.
- Gilbert White

If there are weeds in my garden, I have a problem. But it does not lead me to question the existence of lettuce.
- Douglas Wilson

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